Has anyone ever created a coffee table book by using a report or created a report that one may like. I wanna create a book so I can inform guest that come over to my house on to what movies I own and all and not have to pull up the website nor show them my iPad.

Thanks

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Has anyone ever created a coffee table book by using a report or created a report that one may like. I wanna create a book so I can inform guest that come over to my house on to what movies I own and all and not have to pull up the website nor show them my iPad.

Thanks

I really like this idea, it's a bit silly but kind of nice too.

I like the idea of one profile per page, but then I realise how thick and heavy that would be.  For my collection I'd need a book about 16" wide to hold them, a hefty tomb!  (I measured an ordinary new book with 250 pages in it of 'art-quality' paper and it's about three-quarter of an inch wide.)  If you wanted a book which you could remove, add or changes pages in, it would need to be even wider to accommodate that sort of spine/binding.

I have a decent sized collection and about 75% of my discs (so that's about 2,700) are stored in 'flight cases' with all the sleeves in A5 punched pockets; it takes 30 lever arch files to hold all the latter, which take up over 7' of shelf space.

As a compromise, I quite like the idea of a sort of electronic book that could sit in a tablet, that actually works like a magazine.  But even this doesn't have the speed of use and flexibility of a real book and that nice ability they have to flick through them.  Or something that would work like an e-book perhaps?

I guess I could have lots of smaller coffee table books, split into different categories somehow....  (Cue hours of fun trying to decide what those would be.)   

Maybe one page per profile just isn't feasible once a collection gets to a certain size?  (The cost of the printer ink alone...!)