Database of Books

I never seem to know when new books by my favorite authors are coming out. I'm often sheepishly surprised to see one on the new book shelf. I feel like I'm not doing my job as a Faithful Reader when I didn't even know they had released a new book!

So I decided to create a little database this weekend and enter authors, books and series along with websites so I can just click a button and go see what the latest news is. I set up a system for entering when their next book is due to come out and if I've read all their books or not. So can find books soon to be released and I can find books I haven't read yet.

So far I've entered 69 authors, 64 series and 281 books (232 that I've read). I added a whole bunch of authors that I haven't entered books for yet. So I have a ways to go. I was happy to have my BIRTW columns to get my most recent information. I may go back through my emails from the library to get more.

I thought about adding a field for when I read a book, but that just sounds like too much work. I'm not sure I need to track that anyway.

Here's a screenshot of my Authors database (I borrowed the design from our contacts database at work).