I love books, Hi-ace loves books and now I think our daughter has been infected too. Her favorite place to shop now is the bookstore. Not that I would want to stop her.

But because of this, we got piles of books and the bookshelves are simply bursting. When we were in the Philippines, I lost a lot of books because I couldn’t really keep track of it specially when someone borrows and it just slips my mind.

We both decided to at least organize our stuff. I’ve been doing some net research on software available to keep track of our books. Something like a personal library. I found some freewares and I’ve listed those in my other blog -  Free Book Collection Organizing Softwares. You can take a peek at it if you want to have a software to organize your book collections.

Some of them use the book’s ISBN as the book ID or reference tag and they recommend having a barcode scanner like the Symbol LS2208 for faster encoding if you really have gazillions of books. But if you’re collection is still manageable then good old manual typing will still be okay.

Others also have the feature of being able to manage your ebook collection together with your book collections. Do check it out.