[AccessD] Home inventory problem

Steve Erbach erbachs at gmail.com
Mon Apr 4 14:55:02 CDT 2005


Gustav,

I'm sure he's considered the time needed. I once "inventoried" all the
books in our house by category. I didn't list them, I just counted
them. No way would I want to record even just the titles in a
database. But my friend seems reconciled to it.

Steve Erbach

On Apr 4, 2005 3:29 AM, Gustav Brock <Gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:
> Hi Steve
> 
> Has he considered the time needed to "record" these things??
> 
> I once listed all my vinyl records in a nice database as I planned to
> sell them as a collection. Quickly I realized the amount of typing work
> and persuaded (bought) my daughter to do this for sweet daddy. She did
> but I wasn't proud.
> 
> So your friend should consider if it wasn't a better idea to
> listen/watch/read items from his collection rather than spending a vast
> amount of time recording it. Unless, of course, he has 50 items of each
> in which case - as suggested - write a list in Word.
> 
> Oh, I didn't sell the records ...
> 
> /gustav



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