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Book cataloging programs are utterly frustrating. Readerware is having some issue, and won't let me select a database to use. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jakal88 has been utterly wonderful, especially since he has absolutely no obligation to do anything with this stuff anymore, and apparently he hadn't even eaten dinenr- but there's only so much he can do from a 12 hour trip away. So belu just came and rescued it and me, and it now works- in his presence at least: I think I just had to put the fear of people-who-know-how-to-use-computers into Marvin. (N.B. Marvin is my computer.) And then we had an amusing conversation. But it's now past my bedtime as I'd like to have it. Oh well. Even if I get up a bit later, I should have some good work time tomorrow morning. But well, Readerware still just ate my evening, naughty thing. And I still haven't gotten that cataloging done. Maybe tomorrow morning, or after BORG. We'll see. But it needs to get done.
[Aside: I say cataloging programs, plural, because the one I used at the Slifka Center this summer was equally nasty, if in different ways. It set up much easier, but adding books took forever and a day. I wonder if anyone is working on that now. I should ask... But well, it'll take ages, even with lots of happy student volunteers.]
jakal88 has been utterly wonderful, especially since he has absolutely no obligation to do anything with this stuff anymore, and apparently he hadn't even eaten dinenr- but there's only so much he can do from a 12 hour trip away. So belu just came and rescued it and me, and it now works- in his presence at least: I think I just had to put the fear of people-who-know-how-to-use-computers into Marvin. (N.B. Marvin is my computer.) And then we had an amusing conversation. But it's now past my bedtime as I'd like to have it. Oh well. Even if I get up a bit later, I should have some good work time tomorrow morning. But well, Readerware still just ate my evening, naughty thing. And I still haven't gotten that cataloging done. Maybe tomorrow morning, or after BORG. We'll see. But it needs to get done. [Aside: I say cataloging programs, plural, because the one I used at the Slifka Center this summer was equally nasty, if in different ways. It set up much easier, but adding books took forever and a day. I wonder if anyone is working on that now. I should ask... But well, it'll take ages, even with lots of happy student volunteers.]