I have decided to try to catalog all my books again since I am getting a bookshelf for the Winter Solstice. The first time I started to catalog my books, I used Book Collector by Collectorz.com but I got bogged down with all the fields that can be filled for each book. The user can input an ISBN and Book Collector will download the books information. The problem was that each book had a different amount of information on the internet so different fields would be filled in. Some of the stuff like the plot didn’t always get digitized correctly. I ended up trying to fill in the blanks which took forever so I stopped. It was also hard to setup a system to denote which universe a book was in. For example, the Honor Harrington series by David Weber has some side books that I would like to be able to denote as taking place in the Honorverse.

I had similar problems with my movie catalog until I decided not to try to fill in the missing info and just keep what I downloaded. I think I will do something similar with my book catalog. I will probably just try to fill in the main fields. I still need to come up with a system for the universe problem.