{"id":4,"date":"2006-08-25T11:19:48","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T17:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=4"},"modified":"2006-08-25T14:01:25","modified_gmt":"2006-08-25T20:01:25","slug":"so-many-books-so-little-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"So many books, so little time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denver.lib.co.us\/about\/support\/sale.html\">Denver Public Library book sale<\/a> is this weekend, and I&#8217;ve got guests coming in tomorrow, which will probably preclude my attendance. Maybe they&#8217;ll want to join me there Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, it&#8217;s not like I have room for all of my current books, anyway. Speaking of books, <a title=\"Tools for book lovers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.readerware.com\/\">Readerware<\/a> is an application I&#8217;m coming to like. You use a barcode scanner to get the ISBN or LOC catalog number, then it looks up all of the book&#8217;s information online (including cover scans, if they&#8217;re available). It supports multiple databases, so besides a database of the books I own, I&#8217;ve started one for books I&#8217;ve checked out from the library, so I can keep track of them.<\/p>\n<p>I bought the bundle so I could get a free barcode scanner, but most of my books predate bar coding. For many of them, the sites the app uses (Amazon, etc.) don&#8217;t have any information, so I&#8217;m still ending up adding all the information manually. Overall, it&#8217;s still a big timesaver, though, and I didn&#8217;t have to design a database from scratch, either.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m doing the same thing with my DVDs with the A\/V catalog program, but I haven&#8217;t used the audio catalog program with my CDs yet &#8211; I moved them into boxes in the garage after ripping them into iTunes. That&#8217;ll come later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out that the Denver Public Library book sale is this weekend, and I&#8217;ve got guests coming in tomorrow, which will probably preclude my attendance. Maybe they&#8217;ll want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}