I am looking for a way to compare my digital and print libraries so that I can reduce the number of physical books in my library. Some of you might be thinking a book case full of books... In truth its more like 5000 titles. I keep accumulating in both formats (Logos and Dead Tree).I had an opportunity to get free books from one source (it was nearly unlimited, though sometimes lacking titles that caught my interest. I'd pick up a couple big boxes full, and take them to a book exchange, where I would get 2:1 credit towards new books. Didn't matter what I brought in, or took out - if I brought two books in, I could take one home for free. The exchange boasted that they sold 100,000lbs of books each weekend they were open. I'd accumulate free books that no one wanted. Take them down, and swap them for commentary sets, books on theology, books by authors I had read, or read about. Books I wanted in Logos but couldn't afford. The only thing they didn't want was the left behind books *chuckle*. I even traded a couple of books that looked to be dated books from iceland on economics. May have been someones highschool mathbooks... For a nicont title... I loved trading up this way. I still have a box of maybe 20-30 duplicates. I need to find a way to (quickly) compare my print library with my digital one so I can further pare down my paper library.I figure I picked up a couple thousand (maybe 4 or 5) titles free this way in the past two years. Fortunately, I am not married... I converted a room in my house into a library and I have books stacked floor to ceiling in bookcases that surround my room, and fill the closet. Books in my bedroom, books in my livingroom. Books from bible college, books from seminary, books from my grandmother (she had been a church planter and had a couple commentary sets)... Not to mention books in Logos. I think I need to stop buying and trading for books for a while.I have and use Goodreads. But I don't know how to quickly import my logos titles into it. I've imported around a thousand regular books and still have thousands of regular books to go. I'm not excited by the prospect of manually importing another ~13k logos titles, nor do I like the idea of searching one title at a time across my logos library. So the long and short of it is this: Is goodreads going to be the best tool for this? Is there an easy way to export my logos library titles into some format that goodreads can import (even by way of a third party application, even if it costs a bit)?Faithlife - it might behoove you to make an app for this. You see, the more books I sell, the more money I have to spend on titles to feed Logos.
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I think that the most laborious part will be getting your print library into some kind of standard database format, such as SQL. There are several experts or very knowledgeable friends here that may be able to direct or assist you on converting your Logos library into the standard database format. Once the two formats agree and can speak a common language, it will be fairly easy to create comparison reports.
Interesting predicament. I'm not sure I can help. I know that you can export your library to an excel spreadsheet, but I'm not sure how that would interact with goodreads. If there was a column in the Logos library view for ISBN numbers, that would probably make things easier, but that information does not appear to be there.
I'm interested to see what suggestions you receive. I also have many books. Probably less than half of what you have, though. I would like to cull the herd a bit, too.
If you intent is to keep most of those books, I would suggest a database program of some sort... My personal suggestion? Keep what you think you would use most and donate/sell the rest.
I am probably like you, except that I am married and my wife puts the brakes on my book purchases. I like print books, but they aren't nearly as useful as books in my Logos library... It is very rare for me to purchase print books now. If for no other reason: If I don't KNOW it's there, it won't get used. I don't have the time or space to organize them, but even if I did it would in no way come close to being able to "accidentally" discover a book in Logos.
I just sold and donated hundreds of books. I spent hours 1) checking against my Logos library, 2) Deciding if I wanted to donate or sell and 3) looking up prices online. As we are hopefully making a move across town sometime this month, I didn't want to move them AGAIN for them to sit for another decade (or more)... Now to do the same with my movie collection...
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I guess you do keep a good inventory of all the Dead Tree. If not I would put somework into a good system.
Couldn't you look into collections or maybe ask Logos for a list of all resources to date and then sort it using Excel or Numbers?
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Erwin Stull, Sr.: I think that the most laborious part will be getting your print library into some kind of standard database format, such as SQL. There are several experts or very knowledgeable friends here that may be able to direct or assist you on converting your Logos library into the standard database format. Once the two formats agree and can speak a common language, it will be fairly easy to create comparison reports.
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edit: I was able to get all my books into Calibre using a plugin called "import book list". First I went to Logos, created a collection for "full library" with the following rule: Rating:>=0 . Then I created a bibliography, and instead of printing, i used the option "copy to clipboard". This took a relatively long time.Then I installed the plugin into calibre. The plugin lets you paste from your clipboard and then builds an empty book based upon each entry on my clipboard. Clicked next a bunch of times... Now I'm waiting while it processes 13,000~ titles. I can export all the books I've scanned into goodreads to a CSV, and then import that into Calibre using the same plugin. Later I will see if I can find a plugin that will check for duplicates... I bet it exists.Edit: here is my goodreads profile. https://www.goodreads.com/jsschrstrcks
well that caused calibre to crash. Guessing they weren't expecting that massive of an info dump. May try again but with fewer titles at once.
I have books in paper, Kindle and Logos format and it is difficult to remember where a given book is. What I have done is maintain a database on the ios platform. This involves extracting the lists of books from Logos and Kindle and manually inputting paper books.
The library app is Book Crawler. http://www.chiisai.com/j25/
They have a Mac app but I am not familiar with it.
I focus on the fields of Author, Title, Series, Publisher. I can also import the tags from Logos as I have tagged each resource.
The process takes a bit of text manipulation to clean up the data and delete fields as you bring in Logos data into the Book Crawler format.
For Logos, I use the Windows app, Logos Lib Reporter. This will take the database and extract it into a format that I can use in Excel.
For Kindle I found a process to copy the screen showing the list of books and using a text editor and regular expression clean up the data.
Paper books can be scanned using the isbn code or manually searching with title information.
The hassle is combining all this data into the format that Book Crawler uses, but it is doable. Once I have it created I can export that database and use that as a base and add new purchases from Logos and Kindle. Paper books can be scanned in as they come in.
If you want more detail, I could write something up. It helps me to quickly determine if I have a book and if it is on the shelf or in Logos or Kindle.
Definitely! would be quite interested in hearing your method. In the mean time I'm going to go through my collections (every book in my logos library is in at least one collection) and try using the smaller sets of books and see how well my plan works before I sink a bunch more time into it.
abondservant:Fortunately, I am not married... I converted a room in my house into a library and I have books stacked floor to ceiling in bookcases that surround my room, and fill the closet. Books in my bedroom, books in my livingroom. Books from bible college, books from seminary, books from my grandmother (she had been a church planter and had a couple commentary sets)... Not to mention books in Logos.
I can see the advantage of not being married in your case. I'd love to see some photos of your rooms. I can only imagine what they look like.
As I have said in other threads I actually gave away almost 2,000 paper books which have been replaced by Logos. Eventually I'd love to have them all in Logos but I know that this will never been completely an option.
I look forward to hearing more about how you end up handling things.
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So calibre may not be the answer. At least not directly from Logos into calibre. Logos copies the information to your clipboard one book to one field. The title, author and everything is in the same field. So when imported into calibre its: "Author, title, book, publisher, place, year" all lumped together in the title field in calibre. I told it to download the meta data for the books I've imported (~1100) and it took about a half hour. It only found 28 books, and 12 of those (journals as it happens) were wrong. I'm out of time for now, but I'll revisit this again - perhaps tonight while watching tv.
Bruce Dunning: I can see the advantage of not being married in your case. I'd love to see some photos of your rooms. I can only imagine what they look like. As I have said in other threads I actually gave away almost 2,000 paper books which have been replaced by Logos. Eventually I'd love to have them all in Logos but I know that this will never been completely an option. I look forward to hearing more about how you end up handling things.
I use LibraryThing. I've entered my print books manually (via the ISBN), and import my Logos books. There's an easy option where you can display your duplicates. They sell very cheap barcode scanners to help you with your print books (or you could import from Goodreads).
It's not foolproof. In particular, you'll often find that if you have 6 different volumes of a set with a very similar title, they'll appear as duplicates. But it's the quickest way I know.
Importing Logos books into LibraryThing takes a few steps. I can tell you those steps if you're interested.
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Yes definitely!I've encountered issues from Logos -> calibre and from Goodreads -> calibre. My method isn't going to work like I'd hoped.
These first-world problems are tough.
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I hear you there Doc B. Its a blessing to have God's word in our language, much less 12k$ in bible software, and a house too small to contain all my books. Praise God for the time and place He has allowed us to be. We are incredibly blessed and yet we squander so much of it.
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