Collectorz.com Newsletter September 2008

Hey,

Alwin here, with your monthly Collectorz.com news.

So, what are we working on?

Of course there is continuing work on our media databases.
Martin and Rowdy are focusing on the data quality and completeness of our most popular movies and games.
We are also adding new items to all databases on a daily basis, using your submissions.

Keep em coming!

The biggest project is Book Collector 6.0 for Windows.
Ronald and Sven are working on this full-time. It will be a major step forward, especially in the Add Automatically department. Can't say too much about it now, you will have to wait for its release (ETA November 2008), sorry.

The same "big step" will also be included in the upcoming 3.0 release of Book Collector for Mac OS X.
We expect to release new 3.0 versions for all 3 Mac products before the end of the year. Patrick is doing his best to make this happen.

Other stuff we did in the past few weeks

Two new products have been added to the Collectorz.com shop:
The Flic Protective Boot, protect your laser scanner with this rubber boot
The Collectorz.com Mouse Pad
Henk-Jan and me worked on new Support and FAQ pages with a built in Search feature (just click the box of your program to find the full FAQ)
Mark created a new Canasta website (yes, we also sell a card game)

As always, we end this newsletter with a user story. This time it is Comic Collector user Bob Fisher who shares the story of his first comic ever.

Meet The Collector: Bob Fisher

I could write a book about comics or at least the events that took place when I bought the comics. Anyone over 50 will now that we didn't have dedicated comic stores that would make sure we didn't miss anything. Drug stores, newsstands, some grocery stores, wherever I saw a comic book I'd buy it if I had any money on me. While going through the process of scanning and entering them into Comic Collector, I'm actually surprized that I have some decent runs of several titles from the silver age...

One quick story of my first comic. The summer of 1955 I was 3 and a half years old. While visiting my grandfather in NC, litterly "in the sticks". Picture Mayberry and chop it in half. While playing out in the yard I noticed the neighbor accross the field had a couple of big boxes and it looked like a trike was in one of them. I ran across the field but when I got there it was all junk and broken toys and the trike was rusty etc....

BUT, in the bottom of one of the boxes I saw a corner of a comic book. I had never seen a comic before so I pulled it out of the box and another one came with it. No covers, part of the first story in both was missing they were yellow and were being thrown away. I took them home and asked my mother to read them to me which she did and I still remember being blown away. She didn't do the voices or really get into it so to speak so I knew I had to learn those words myself. I made her read them over and over until I had them memorized and actually learned to read using them and about 6 or so other comics my parents got me in the next year or so before I started school.

When I got to school and they passed out the "See Dick Run" book I thought they had to be kidding. I had already read stories of a guy who could fly and see through walls and another guy who dressed like a bat and solved crimes. They weren't kidding and I was WAY ahead of them because of two partial comics that were being thrown away.

Thanks to the net and a little searching I was able to put names and numbers to those two beat up old comics.
They were Action Comics #169 ,1952, and Detective Comics #146, 1949.

I still have them.

Bob Fisher
Visit Bob's Comic Collection online.

Enjoy,

Alwin Hoogerdijk
President, Collectorz.com

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