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On 14 Jul 2008, at 13:06, CJoeB wrote: |
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> Eric Martin wrote: |
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>> Before I recreated the wheel, does anybody know of any good |
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>> library management software (preferably in portage)? My wife and |
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>> I are having a hard time keeping track of what books we have, and |
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>> what books we are lending out to people so I figured this would be |
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>> a good way to keep track. Since it's for personal use it doesn't |
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>> have to be anything big. Preferably backended by MySQL as I |
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>> already have a server running for MythTV and Amarok. |
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>> I did a few eix searches for portage and came up empty handed, and |
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>> sourceforge.net has a ton of stuff but I was wondering what other |
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>> people use. |
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> Have you heard of Tellico. It's a collection manager that can be |
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> used for books, music, video ... whatever. It allows you to enter |
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> the name of the book, a graphic if you have one, rate the book and |
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> indicate whether or not it's a gift, how much you paid for it and |
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> if you have lent it out. It *is* in Portage. |
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> Some information: |
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> http://periapsis.org/tellico/ |
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The screenshots of this look really nice, however to me this seems |
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like a really odd motivation for writing a program: |
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I started developing it when I couldn't find a personal database |
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program for KDE which didn't using a SQL backend. |
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What's wrong with an SQL backend that needs you to re-invent the |
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wheel? I'm not saying there's a better collection manager out there, |
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or that the author's in the wrong for doing it the way he has. But it |
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just seems a little odd, and I'd love for him to explain his reasons |
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more fully. |
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Stroller. |
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