Re: [emacs-humanities] Emacs as a library manager

[Luis Henriques]

On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 09:48:42PM +0100, M. ‘quintus’ Gülker wrote:
> Am 03. Februar 2021 um 22:25 Uhr +0000 schrieb Luis Henriques:
> > For a long time now I've been in the quest for a perfect solution for
> > managing my (physical) books.  Basically, I want to keep track of the
> > basic metadata associated with a book (title, subtitle, author, genre,
> > publisher, etc).
> 
> The most simple solution would just be a table in org mode probably.

Hmm... at the moment I keep my data in (lo) spreadsheet and I really don't
want to move from it into a similar format in Org.  I *could* use
headings+properties and use that to automatically create tables for
exporting.  But using tables for storing the data doesn't looking like a
good idea (for ex, for performance as already pointed out by others).

Anyway, I appreciate the suggestion.  And I *may* end up using Org tables
for exporting data even if I start using Ebib for managing my collection
(it shouldn't be too difficult to pick data from .bib files into tables).

Cheers,
--
Luis

> You do not have to learn much syntax. Org is smart enough to properly
> align tables, so you can just start with
> 
>     |Title|Author|Publisher|
>     |-
>     |Some wonderful title|John Doe|Printed Books, Inc.|
> 
> and you can just hit TAB, and it will nicely align things into
> 
>     | Title                | Author   | Publisher           |
>     |----------------------+----------+---------------------|
>     | Some wonderful title | John Doe | Printed Books, Inc. |
>     |                      |          |                     |
> 
> . This approach does not need any third party tools and can even be
> exported nicely as PDF if you want a physical list. Where it breaks
> down is if you want to store lots of metadata. Org can deal with
> horizontally long lables, but it becomes quite hard to read.
> 
>   -quintus
> 
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