{"id":5057,"date":"2004-02-06T12:19:35","date_gmt":"2004-02-06T20:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/06\/5057\/"},"modified":"2004-02-06T12:19:35","modified_gmt":"2004-02-06T20:19:35","slug":"comic-book-tracking-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=5057","title":{"rendered":"Comic Book Tracking Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I need something to help me track my comic book collection.  I have mainly trade paperbacks (they are less clutter), but I have a lot of them&#8230;  it hasn&#8217;t gotten to the point where I don&#8217;t remember whether I&#8217;ve bought something or not, but it&#8217;s on the verge of getting there.<\/p>\n<p \/>\nAlso, since I live with Diane now, and she has many boxes of Wonder Woman, we need to rein it in ASAP.<br \/>\n  At this point I&#8217;m favoring the following attributes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<lI>web-based interface<\/li>\n<li>backed by a database (pref MySQL)<\/li>\n<li>open-source (I will be hacking on it)<\/lI>\n<li>some kind of support for sorting by artist or writer or both, or a framework that makes it relatively easy to add that support<\/lI>\n<li>the product MUST BE FINISHED, because if I wanted some half-assed program that was mostly broken, I could write it myself<\/lI>\n<\/ul>\n<p \/>\nAll of these are from <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/\">SourceForge<\/a>, ordered by relevancy and potential.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/libdb\/\">LibDB<\/a> is more generally for magazines, movies, and pretty much every medium you might own.  They seem to be still active (Feb 4th 02004) and their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disobey.com\/noos\/LibDB\/\">home page<\/a> is pretty impressive.  The designers seem to be actual librarian\/information archivists.\n<p \/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/mangadb\/\">MangaDB<\/a> runs in perl\/CGI.  It has a pretty complete <a href=\"http:\/\/sigh.org\/mangadb\/\">home page<\/a> and a running <a href=\"http:\/\/melz.org\/manga\/\">demo<\/a>.  As promised, it is very suitable for the front end of a Manga store.  Bears future investigation.\n<p \/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/phpmycomic\/\">PHPMyComic<\/a> is one of the most advanced&#8230; however the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpmycomic.net\/\">home page<\/a> for the site is mostly broken, and I couldn&#8217;t even leave a comment on the &#8220;Forums&#8221; section.\n<p \/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/cuacslib\/\">Odin<\/a> aka &#8220;ACSoc Comics Library Management System&#8221; has a home page at <a href=\"http:\/\/cuacslib.sourceforge.net\/\">sourceforge<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/odin.cuhkacs.org\/current\/\">demo site<\/a> up&#8230; however, every time I&#8217;ve visited the demo site, it&#8217;s been broken, and all the links are in Chinese.  Cool site alias though- <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.to\/cucomic\">www3.to\/cucomic<\/a>.\n<p \/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/jcomics\/\">JComics<\/a> looks like it started as a personal project in 02001, came out with a single release, and then got dropped.  The project home page is an empty directory listing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/cretinoid\/\">CComicCataloging<\/a>&#8211; released once in late 02002.  No documentation, no forum comments.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/mycomicollector\/\">myComicCollector<\/a> is listed in the &#8220;planning&#8221; stage, is written in Italian, and last had activity in Jan 02003.  Next!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/phpcm\/\">phpCM<\/a> is written for PHP and MySQL&#8230; too bad it never had a release, and was last heard from in august 02002.<\/li>\n<li>I can&#8217;t even think of what the concept was for <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/cbs\/\">Comic Book Studio<\/a>.  Apparenlty something to do with <b>publishing<\/b> comics as well as archiving&#8230; No releases, no documentation, no posts, last updated Nov 02001.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/phpcbc\/\">PHP Comic Book Collector<\/a> was just started in Jan 02004.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I need something to help me track my comic book collection. I have mainly trade paperbacks (they are less clutter), but I have a lot of them&#8230; it hasn&#8217;t gotten to the point where I don&#8217;t remember whether I&#8217;ve bought something or not, but it&#8217;s on the verge of getting there. 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