Satisfaction

I'm in the process of subcataloging my library. All my books - at least, the ones at home - are in the database; now I'm recording the discrete units within each book - individual stories, poems, articles, etc. I'm attaching each one to the book (or books!) it is to be found in and to the author (or authors!), sorting them into broad types (encyclopedia article, letter, sermon, short poem, long poem, etc.), and adding keywords and other notes.

There is something very satisfying about putting together an Access form that automates or at least eases work that, at the table level, is extremely tedious. I'm still not quite happy with the forms I've designed, but my remaining complaints are largely aesthetic - they get the job done, and that's the main thing.

Good forms or not, though, this is going to involve months of intermittent labor.