How many song books to you bring to a show?

[alpfleger]

I bring 4 artist and 4 title and something else. I bring a cheap used laptop that has an old Sax & Dotty show presenter program on it. I attach an external hard drive to the laptop and then I set up the sax & Dotty software with the drive that has all my songs. It scans the drive where my folders are . Then I detach the drive. I can then search by artist or title and it finds the songs tracks and artists, but it can't play them. The singer writes out the song slip and they love it!

[Roy Dennis]

I print 7 of my books with only about 5000 songs with no duplicates. I have them by Artist & by Title with pages at the back for Duets & New additions which are usually the latest pop songs. The first page explains that these books only show the most popular songs and if they can't find their favorite song to just write down their Title & Artist and I will Do My Best To find It. It is not very often I can't find what they want. The biggest problem with singers is they don't always know the proper title. I use 100 leaf display pockets which gives you 200 pages. with these you don't get problems with pages falling out like you do with ring binders. I have another 2 books 1 of which is Artist & 1 by Title. but I rarely give these out. they have about 14,000 songs in each and almost fill the 200 page leaf displays.

This seems to work fine with my singers.