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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Estlor" data-source="post: 2072080" data-attributes="member: 7261">Call me low-tech, but what I do is collect them all in the same folder until I have enough similar ones to burn on a CD.  I label the CD with the names of the books on that CD, and make a simple text file that has filename - book name in it. It would be rather simple to make a basic database in Access to hold the information.  If everything has an ISBN you could use that as your linkable key number for normalization purposes.  You could have a publisher table with each one having a self-assigned pubid, then a book table with ISBN as your key, the filename, the book name, and the pubid.  This assumes you're going to do something else with publisher (e.g. have a table of pubids and websites if applicable), otherwise you could just put the publisher information directly in the table, skip Access, and make it a spreadsheet in Excel. Basically, don't go the database route unless you want to add additional value to the data you're collecting.  If you just want a roster of filenames and book names and where they are on your hard drive, use a spreadsheet.  But if you're tracking all your RPG purchases, publisher information, designer information, and so on, take the time to make a proper database.</blockquote>