What's the best way to have a paper listing of your collection?
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What's the best way to have a papel listing of your collection?
I want to have a bound packet with pages in protective sheets for my DVD collection. I currently have 677 titles. What's the best way to go about this without spending a ton of money? I want to use a DVD Profiler report to have 1 movie per sheet because if I do more, then as I add movies it won't be in order anymore. That also makes it easy to have a separate section with, say, loaned movies and move a sheet there every time someone borrows a movie.
Kinko's charges $0.99 per color copy. Ideas?
Kinko's charges $0.99 per color copy. Ideas?
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Originally posted by Static Cling
Edited thread title to cut down on the bad jokes.
(But seriously, "l" isn't anywhere near "r"... wha happen? )
Edited thread title to cut down on the bad jokes.
(But seriously, "l" isn't anywhere near "r"... wha happen? )
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Re: What's the best way to have a papel listing of your collection?
Originally posted by GatorDeb
That also makes it easy to have a separate section with, say, loaned movies and move a sheet there every time someone borrows a movie.
That also makes it easy to have a separate section with, say, loaned movies and move a sheet there every time someone borrows a movie.
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Re: What's the best way to have a papel listing of your collection?
Originally posted by GatorDeb
I want to have a bound packet with pages in protective sheets for my DVD collection. I currently have 677 titles. What's the best way to go about this without spending a ton of money? I want to use a DVD Profiler report to have 1 movie per sheet because if I do more, then as I add movies it won't be in order anymore. That also makes it easy to have a separate section with, say, loaned movies and move a sheet there every time someone borrows a movie.
Kinko's charges $0.99 per color copy. Ideas?
I want to have a bound packet with pages in protective sheets for my DVD collection. I currently have 677 titles. What's the best way to go about this without spending a ton of money? I want to use a DVD Profiler report to have 1 movie per sheet because if I do more, then as I add movies it won't be in order anymore. That also makes it easy to have a separate section with, say, loaned movies and move a sheet there every time someone borrows a movie.
Kinko's charges $0.99 per color copy. Ideas?
The whole idea behind DVD Profiler (and others) is to take advantage of the concept of a database. Updates are easy. Ability to indicate loaned copies etc. And if your local computer bites the dust, all is not lost, you can download it again from the server.
If someone wants to browse your collection, you can show them your collection on screen either by DVD Profiler or as a web page (as you already are taking advantage of). Pretty pictures and all.
Why spend all that money on multiple binders, 600+ page sleeves, ink and paper? Not to mention your time and effort ...
If you want a paper list, why not just download it to Excel and print out the list to about 10 b&w text pages?
If you think that your friends need a color picture to help them figure out which DVD to borrow ... don't lend it to them as they are not that bright.
Btw, Really nice collection.
Last edited by ctyankee; 12-12-03 at 09:33 AM.
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Originally posted by MrE
Lending library...?
Lending library...?
Now, The X-Files sets... those are NOT leaving the house. She can come watch them here
Regular DVD movies are hard to mess up, and she only gets 1 set at a time, so if there's damage it'll be minimum and I'll get mom to replace it before reinstating borrowing priviledges (get my sister to replace a box because of a tear? Ha!).
She's not a scratcher but some discs have come back dirty.
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Re: Re: What's the best way to have a papel listing of your collection?
Originally posted by ctyankee
Why spend all that money on multiple binders, 600+ page sleeves, ink and paper? Not to mention your time and effort ...
If you want a paper list, why not just download it to Excel and print out the list to about 10 b&w text pages?
If you think that your friends need a color picture to help them figure out which DVD to borrow ... don't lend it to them as they are not that bright.
Why spend all that money on multiple binders, 600+ page sleeves, ink and paper? Not to mention your time and effort ...
If you want a paper list, why not just download it to Excel and print out the list to about 10 b&w text pages?
If you think that your friends need a color picture to help them figure out which DVD to borrow ... don't lend it to them as they are not that bright.
I think I figured out a way. I did these 2.2X2 per DVD reports that have title, running time, subtitles, full listing of features, cover, and Easter Eggs. I figured I can print the 68 pages for the almost 700 DVDs and CUT THEM OUT!!! Then I can paste them to notecards and keep them in a file I don't know why I hadn't thought of it before. It cuts it by over a seventh and still lets me easily rearrange titles (by collection (i.e. Criterion), etc) and easily alphabetize new additions.
The reason that I can't do excel is that I like a full list of features and that's easier to do using Reports.
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I too suggest NOT having a paper listing. Since I loan out discs fairly frequently, I dropped DVD Profiler and use Ant Movie Catalog instead. It just works better for me for keeping loan history (I keep track of who borrowed a title, when they borrowed it, and when they returned it)... I can easily create a summary listing of all the discs a particular person borrowed, and such.
Also, since I do NOT keep my entire collection in a single place... (some are visible in the Living Room, most are stored in a cabinet) I use AMC to generate sub-listings based on "location" so that I can regularly run "inventory".
But I can certainly see the appeal of having a printed "catalog" of films. I will someday do that myself, especially since my collection is pretty stable... maybe one title a month or so.
You can print more than one title per page. You can reduce the number of pages that need to be reprinted if you wait on re-printing until either there is a sufficient number of additions or an even number of additions so that a full new page would be added...which only affects a single newly inserted page but leaves the remainder unaltered. (hard to describe, but easy to visualize )
Also, since I do NOT keep my entire collection in a single place... (some are visible in the Living Room, most are stored in a cabinet) I use AMC to generate sub-listings based on "location" so that I can regularly run "inventory".
But I can certainly see the appeal of having a printed "catalog" of films. I will someday do that myself, especially since my collection is pretty stable... maybe one title a month or so.
You can print more than one title per page. You can reduce the number of pages that need to be reprinted if you wait on re-printing until either there is a sufficient number of additions or an even number of additions so that a full new page would be added...which only affects a single newly inserted page but leaves the remainder unaltered. (hard to describe, but easy to visualize )
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I am going to do something like that, so people don't have to look through all my movies when they come over, but it's almost as bad looking through 600 pages.
So I'll just have them print out in "Collection Number" order, about 30 to a page, to make them easier to look through. Whenever I have another 30, I can just print out the next page (still in collection number order). Saves paper and ink, plus makes the binders more manageable and easier to look through.
I don't really lend them out, so I don't have to worry about tracking that.
So I'll just have them print out in "Collection Number" order, about 30 to a page, to make them easier to look through. Whenever I have another 30, I can just print out the next page (still in collection number order). Saves paper and ink, plus makes the binders more manageable and easier to look through.
I don't really lend them out, so I don't have to worry about tracking that.
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Originally posted by Ginwen
I am going to do something like that, so people don't have to look through all my movies when they come over
I am going to do something like that, so people don't have to look through all my movies when they come over
I let people look at my library....from a distance. stay behind the white line, please. all this talk of lending is giving me the creeps.
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Re: What's the best way to have a papel listing of your collection?
Originally posted by GatorDeb
I want to have a bound packet with pages in protective sheets for my DVD collection. I currently have 677 titles. What's the best way to go about this without spending a ton of money? I want to use a DVD Profiler report to have 1 movie per sheet because if I do more, then as I add movies it won't be in order anymore. That also makes it easy to have a separate section with, say, loaned movies and move a sheet there every time someone borrows a movie.
Kinko's charges $0.99 per color copy. Ideas?
I want to have a bound packet with pages in protective sheets for my DVD collection. I currently have 677 titles. What's the best way to go about this without spending a ton of money? I want to use a DVD Profiler report to have 1 movie per sheet because if I do more, then as I add movies it won't be in order anymore. That also makes it easy to have a separate section with, say, loaned movies and move a sheet there every time someone borrows a movie.
Kinko's charges $0.99 per color copy. Ideas?