I finally noticed within the last week or two I guess, that the two pieces of software I use to maintain my DVD database and my book database, both have export-to-HTML features. (Why it took me this long to notice that they had this extremely basic feature is beyond me).
Now, for most people, obviously, a piece of software to keep track of your books and DVDs seems like overkill but, well, I've got a lot. In the "Dream House I Design Some Day"TM, there is an honest to goodness "library", complete with the rolling ladder and all that jazz.
Anyhow, if you're interested in poking around "what's cluttering up Derek's shelves", you can take a look at my DVD collection or my book collection. They're also linked in the sidebar, in case you should happen to care. :-)
Is there any free tool that can categorize DVDs by just throwing them into the drive?
Do you know something similar, software wise, that would work well under Debian? I'd even consider getting a barcode scanner to make things easier to add titles to the catalog. It however needs to access a database as I don't have time to do anything except scan the barcode or enter an ISBN for those titles that have ISBN numbers. There are hundreds of titles that I own that don't have ISBN and many that don't even have any LoC data on their title pages.
Ralf: I don't think so. Least I've never heard of one.
Dave: Never seen any. Pretty much it seems like "people who want to make servers" use linux, and "people who want to have useable desktops" use Macs. :-)
Dave: I'm blowing my own horn here, but I wrote a KDE application that might do a little of what you want.
Tellico: http://www.periapsis.org/tellico/
I believe it's in Debian unstable.