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Years ago I set up a web page to post book recommendations.  I put the recommendations in a tiny Access data base and built an ASP page http://www.susandennis.net/books.asp to slice and dice and present the data.

For a variety of reasons, I'm wondering now if there isn't a better, newer, easier, cheaper way.

  • The database is really crude.  Two tables - Books has 5 fields and 640 entries. Authors has 4 fields (but if the data base was designed correctly it would only need 2) and 323 entries. 
  • The web page currently offers
    • by author
    • by type
    • by when I read
  • I'd love to add some kind of Alpha by title
  • I'm paying a hosting company $17.00 a quarter just for this silly book database. (10,000KB basically for the page and the database)
  • I use two other hosting companies but neither offer asp pages and I'm not smart enough to figure out how to use PHP or any other database besides Access.
  • My ideal would be to have someone build me a page that replicates what I have and adds the alpha by title AND gives me the ability to easily add books either via a website or even manually that would enable me to get rid of this hosting company.
Anybody out there have any ideas? Anybody up for taking on a truly simple database/website redo project? Maybe build it up, help me get it onto one of my other hosts and severed up?  I'd be willing to pony up a year's worth of the hosting fee I'm paying now to move over to something that is a better deal.

Or anybody have any other ideas on how to present the recommendations of nearly 700 books on a webpage?

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