Bruji

A former life as an Acquisitions Librarian left me with the phobia of not having control of the titles I have ordered. The problem I has was that when I placed an order for a book or a disc I needed to know from where, how much, when it was shipped and a due date for a follow-up if it was overdue. T...

Works perfectly for me. Just make sure you do a final backup of your 4s then restore that backup & your content to your new 5S

Version 5 of DVDPedia has several fields in a record with links to other records in your collection - Directors, Genre, Writers, Credits (ie. cast and crew) and additionally has a link to the IMDB entry on the internet if you click on the IMDB record number. This will be in your catalogue if you hav...

Thanks Nora. I never like to go backwards with software, and I won't with my favourites either - the 'Pedias. I will live with the new presentation, though being trained as a library cataloguer in a former life it does seem for me to be "wrong". However, as you've mentioned, they payoff is...

Hi Nora When my database was upgraded today with Bookpedia 5 the display order of the names was changed to firstname lastname. It was still sorted alphabetically by lastname, but I can't find a way of returning the display to the way I find more practical: Lastname, Firstname. Can this be done in th...

Bruce

Have a look at CarCare
http://www.digitalfriedchicken.com/CarCare.html

Seems to do everything you want.

From a librarian's point of view, I use notes to comment on the physicality of the item being catalogued and comments on any other aspect - gift, condition, and so on.

9 digit ISBNs were the original form. In the early 1970s a language digit was added to the start of the ISBN making them ten digits. 0 and 1 were allocated to English language publications. If you have a 9 digit number add a zero at the start. Alternatively, 9 digits are equally valid as this was th...