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leggiermente2015-08-21 10:35:51
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leggiermente, 2015-08-21 10:35:51

How to catalog your home paper library?

Given: at home there are more than 3,000 volumes on 52 shelves and mezzanines.
Task: quickly and efficiently make an electronic catalog of all these books.
As I see the problem solved:
1. Buy a label printer (Label Printer).
2. Take a picture of a book cover with a smartphone.
3. Google Goggles recognizes the book and returns its output.
4. The imprint and cover photo are entered into a database (or spreadsheet).
5. The label printer prints a human-readable code* + QR code/barcode associated with the created database entry.
6. The sticker is attached to the book.
Have you done such cataloging? Maybe there is a ready solution? Can you recommend a sticker printer model? Any other ideas?
I completely forgot, it is highly desirable that the software be under linux, since there is no great desire to install Windows only for this.
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* Human-readable code: for example, F-03-2-14: F - physics, 03 - third cabinet, 2 - second shelf, 14 - serial number of the book.

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Sergey, 2015-08-21
@edinorog

www.informsystema.ru/ru/node/34 it's harder to find something cooler than this.
comes in 2 versions •AIBS "MARK-SQL (MARC21)"
•AILS "MARK-SQL (RUSMARC)"
If you were engaged in librarianship, you should know. If not...then the wiki is here to help. )

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Chudo-lenko, 2016-01-22
@Chudo-lenko

Hello. If it's still relevant, I'll share my opinion. For the book catalog I use the Bento program, but it is only for Mac Os. Very handy software. You can set up a bunch of filters, add links to sites or a link to the folder where the book is stored (in the case of electronic ones), etc.

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