I would approach this as an inventory management problem (for which there are plenty of FOSS solutions). I'm not sure you require specialized software built fo

I would approach this as an inventory management problem (for which there are plenty of FOSS solutions). I'm not sure you require specialized software built for book/magazine collections. Conceptually, you have a warehouse where almost everything has "Qty: 1". The rest of the metadata (e.g., titles, authors, ISBNs, storage boxes) can be custom fields.