<p>Your lucky, you have an electronic version to start with, I don't, so what I do is each week, I compare the list on the order of service, if I have it already, I leave it to the end, when I build up the service. If I don't have it, I go onto SongSelect, look for the same lyricist & composer, then download that, and move to the next one. Once I have them all downloadable, I download them. Then do fixup, which is a line by line comparison of the lyrics, adding on the hymn book, number and select a theme. Once all the songs are in the database, I go through and build up the service.</p><p>It actually becomes less and less work over time, because the same songs or hymns get used over and over. The typical hymn book is between 600 and 1000 hymns, the typical church uses about 100 of those.</p><p>I also expect over time, as more and more hymn and song books move to electronic distribution, that a couple of formats will become the ones used by all. OpenLyrics sounds like a good one to use, because it's XML based, although I expect that the commercial publishers will want their own format with some form of copy protection included, so they can charge the same amount for a piece of shiny plastic as they could for a pallet full of the dead tree edition. </p>