Comments on: Books – Organizing Our Personal Libraries http://thepapertiger.com/blog/books-%e2%80%93-organizing-personal-libraries/ A blog about all things Paper Tiger - Find out more at www.thepapertiger.com Fri, 22 Jul 2016 15:29:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 By: Janet Baker http://thepapertiger.com/blog/books-%e2%80%93-organizing-personal-libraries/comment-page-1/#comment-13751 Janet Baker Thu, 06 Sep 2012 19:18:07 +0000 http://www.thepapertiger.com/blog/?p=4213#comment-13751 Sylvia, Yes your plan of action makes sense to me, but more importantly, it makes sense to you and how you want to get them organized into Paper Tiger. One thing to mention is that you cannot search across databases. So if you would not have a book that would cross over to your home from your office, then you should be fine. Either way, when you pull a book from wherever the shelf may be, you could always note in Paper Tiger that you have it and where. Happy organizing your stuff under control! Thanks! Janet Sylvia,
Yes your plan of action makes sense to me, but more importantly, it makes sense to you and how you want to get them organized into Paper Tiger. One thing to mention is that you cannot search across databases. So if you would not have a book that would cross over to your home from your office, then you should be fine. Either way, when you pull a book from wherever the shelf may be, you could always note in Paper Tiger that you have it and where. Happy organizing your stuff under control! Thanks! Janet

]]> By: Sylvia http://thepapertiger.com/blog/books-%e2%80%93-organizing-personal-libraries/comment-page-1/#comment-13706 Sylvia Sat, 01 Sep 2012 04:22:49 +0000 http://www.thepapertiger.com/blog/?p=4213#comment-13706 Janet...i'm just getting started with Ppaer Tiger and i am very excited to finally get my stuff under control and useable. when i started i set up databases and then locations in that. so for books i am thinking I'll do a database for work office books and the locations would be the specific shelf in a specific bookcase. like: tall bookcase top shelf or in my home office: database: home office books: Location: Large bookcase on west wall. top shelf. does this make sense to you? Janet…i’m just getting started with Ppaer Tiger and i am very excited to finally get my stuff under control and useable.

when i started i set up databases and then locations in that.

so for books i am thinking I’ll do a database for work office books and the locations would be the specific shelf in a specific bookcase. like: tall bookcase top shelf or in my home office: database: home office books: Location: Large bookcase on west wall. top shelf.

does this make sense to you?

]]> By: Janet Baker http://thepapertiger.com/blog/books-%e2%80%93-organizing-personal-libraries/comment-page-1/#comment-13619 Janet Baker Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:21:31 +0000 http://www.thepapertiger.com/blog/?p=4213#comment-13619 Judith, The next step after sorting your books into the type groupings or categories that you'd like to have them placed would be to create a Location in Paper Tiger named Books. Then begin with the first group of books and type in the title of the book as the item name in Paper Tiger and any keywords you'd like to input, such as author and what the book is about. You can use the Category section to assign each book to a category. Categories can be the type of book, for instance, Cookbooks, Gardening, Marketing, Poetry, Inspirational, etc. You would number each book to coincide with the item number in Paper Tiger, either by placing a label printed out from Paper Tiger or by permanent marker on the spine of the book. If you had 100 books, in this example, your different groups or categories of books would be numbered 1-100. New books would be added to number 101 going forward. Another example, if you wanted to always keep like categories together, you could have a separate database in Paper Tiger named Books. Then the Locations could be named as the type of books. In this example, you might have a Location named Cookbooks, and the Item Name in Paper Tiger would the title of the book, add any keywords you'd like to add that you think you might search on later, such as the author's name and maybe favorite recipes in each book; or if a different type of book, what the book is about. Hopefully that makes sense! Thanks for the great question!....Janet Judith,
The next step after sorting your books into the type groupings or categories that you’d like to have them placed would be to create a Location in Paper Tiger named Books. Then begin with the first group of books and type in the title of the book as the item name in Paper Tiger and any keywords you’d like to input, such as author and what the book is about. You can use the Category section to assign each book to a category. Categories can be the type of book, for instance, Cookbooks, Gardening, Marketing, Poetry, Inspirational, etc. You would number each book to coincide with the item number in Paper Tiger, either by placing a label printed out from Paper Tiger or by permanent marker on the spine of the book. If you had 100 books, in this example, your different groups or categories of books would be numbered 1-100. New books would be added to number 101 going forward.

Another example, if you wanted to always keep like categories together, you could have a separate database in Paper Tiger named Books. Then the Locations could be named as the type of books. In this example, you might have a Location named Cookbooks, and the Item Name in Paper Tiger would the title of the book, add any keywords you’d like to add that you think you might search on later, such as the author’s name and maybe favorite recipes in each book; or if a different type of book, what the book is about.

Hopefully that makes sense! Thanks for the great question!….Janet

]]> By: Judith Bridgehall http://thepapertiger.com/blog/books-%e2%80%93-organizing-personal-libraries/comment-page-1/#comment-13609 Judith Bridgehall Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:33:19 +0000 http://www.thepapertiger.com/blog/?p=4213#comment-13609 Once sorted into groupings how do you transfer that to Paper Tiger so you can find what you need when you need it? I moved 2 yrs ago and still find myself running around looking for that book that's "somewhere"! I use Paper Tiger successfully for documents. Help with that next step would be appreciated. Thank you. Once sorted into groupings how do you transfer that to Paper Tiger so you can find what you need when you need it? I moved 2 yrs ago and still find myself running around looking for that book that’s “somewhere”!
I use Paper Tiger successfully for documents.
Help with that next step would be appreciated.
Thank you.

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