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Hullo,
over the years I gathered a little collection of books, CDs, DVDs and games. I openly and encouragingly lend them friends if I think they would like it, or when I'm asked to and such. But my memory is beyond bad. I've found myself in the mood for a certain book and couldn't remember who I lend it to if my life depended on it.
Now I'm wondering if there is a free or respectively open source software managing small to medium collections of various media? I've googled some programs I would need to pay for but my fu isn't strong enough to find free software.

Concerning the specs:
* over 1,000 entries
* functionality for lending or attaching of notes
* Windows-based (or web-based, I only have a WinXP PC)

Does anyone know something like that? I wouldn't mind a decent shareware either...

Write down who has what when they borrow it?

Sounds like you could just use a spreadsheet program.

Yeah. Grab OpenOffice (or MS Office if you have it) and either do up a quick-and-dirty spreadsheet or a proper database.

Spreadsheets are alright, but there are programs made specifically for managing inventories of cds and books and such. There's even at least one that lets you scan barcodes (if you have the equipment for it) and automatically input the information that way. I can't remember the names of any of them, but I'll try and look. I could use something like that myself.

edit: here's an example, but it's for mac:
http://www.pure-mac.com/collect.html

not what I was looking for but potentially useful:
http://wareseeker.com/Utilities/pick-pe ... /7d4230f2a

It's not free, but it is effective.

http://www.intelliscanner.com/index.html

Will catalog anything.

http://www.librarything.com/ is also excellent for books.

Punarbhava wrote:not what I was looking for but potentially useful:
http://wareseeker.com/Utilities/pick-pe ... /7d4230f2a

I tried that, but it's not satisfying. It seems to be merely a dedicated XML-Editor with very few functions.

The intelliscanner looks promising but is not entirely in my range. The librarything... we'll see.

eion wrote:http://www.librarything.com/ is also excellent for books.

Quite right. I dabled with it and the only item it didn't find wasn't because it had not been catalogued - the book had the wrong ISBN on it.
Sadly, they want money if you're planning on pushing past 200 entries, but with 25$ for a lifetime account it's decent. I'll probably keep that.

You could try MediaMan.