I was rummaging through some unread issues of Computeractive magazine and I came across an article.  It featured a free database to store books, CDs, DVDs etc.  I downloaded it from www.computeractive.co.uk/2195745 and it's absolutely brilliant for taming Mt 2B.  It links to Amazon and when you type in the ISBN or title etc, it displays the book cover and all the info.  You can organize it in various ways and you can export it as an Excel file too.  If you have a good webcam, instead of typing in the ISBN you can just scan the barcode!!!!!  It takes about 15mins to download on dial-up apparently, and isn't a huge file on the harddrive.

There's a community with a forum and blogs and you can keep track of books on loan.  Happy Easter

 Hi Librarything.com does similar and is free for 250 books  or $25 for life membership. You can also acess via phone and use a cheaper scanner for speed.Another site is Goodreads with similar functionality

SephieG:

It featured a free database to store books, CDs, DVDs etc. 

Thanks for this, just downloaded it - will come in really handy for me as I have a HUGE collection of CD's and records (yes - records!!!) - as well as a HUGE collection of books - and DVD's!!! xx

I should try it this week.

ablueidol:

 Hi Librarything.com does similar and is free for 250 books  or $25 for life membership. You can also acess via phone and use a cheaper scanner for speed.Another site is Goodreads with similar functionality

Hi John,

This isn't online though - it's a download

Thanks for that.  I'll download that later.