Re: [gentoo-user] Good Library Management software

[Eric Martin <freak4uxxx@gmail.com>]

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

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Eric Martin
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