Book Manager released

[manderin87]

Book Manager is a book collection/library application. It will allow input of books by ISBN, scanning the ISBN, or manually. Each book is listed in a variety of ways. The main screen will show books by title, author, genre, series, favorite, wanted and not read. Once you pick a list you can then filter and sort the list to find exactly what you need in your collection.

The application is not free, but take a look and let me know what you think.

 

[bradley975]

Manderin87:

Just downloaded the free trial version and entered a few books. I could see where this could be very handy, having a few hundred books myself. So far I like the interface however having just a listing of books on the main page is sort of boring. Since the book listing already has a book cover attached can you display these. It would give it a much better look. Again it may already do that but I haven't found it yet. Great work on your project. I think people will really like this program.

 

[manderin87]

I think you looked at the wrong one, my app is not free though I will be releasing a free version soon. Thanks for the reply.

 

[manderin87]

Free version of book manager has been released. Please check it out.

 

[TTPaws]

I couldn't get to your website to checkout what it can do.

Does the paid version allow you to import from another collection? If yes what formats does it support?

 

[kokiangel]

Can you import your book list using CSV?

 

[manderin87]

importing from csv will be in the next release. I am working on that feature right now. It is almost done however I am working on a way for the app to locate a picture from the data provided by the csv file.

 

[kokiangel]

I will keep an eye on this app then. That feature would be well worth paying for. I have way to many books to manually key into a database on my phone but I can easily pull them into an excel spreadsheet on my computer and convert them to csv. I would probably lose the cover art but that is a small thing to having a list of my books at hand when I am in a book store so I don't buy something twice.

 

[manderin87]

If you could, what data would you have in the spreadsheet and what order would it be in, I might be better able to accommodate the transition should you choose to use my app. Also dont worry about the cover images, my app will find them for you automatically.

 

[kokiangel]

All that is really needed in such a small space for me is book title, series, author, and brief synopsis. The cover art is a nice touch for appearance and would be icing on the cake. I have something like this on my computer with a link to the actual books so I can choose which to read with an informed eye.
If you create a template csv spreadsheet with headers to export for first time use then import back, the columns would all match up to your ready-made file and simply populate in your database. Or am I thinking too simplistically?

 

[manderin87]

No actually thats a good idea, ill include a template. In addition, if you include a url to the image the app can download and save the book image automatically, but will attempt to find one if the entry is blank.

 

[TTPaws]

If you could, what data would you have in the spreadsheet and what order would it be in, I might be better able to accommodate the transition should you choose to use my app. Also dont worry about the cover images, my app will find them for you automatically.

On my Linux box I have a program called Tellico (Tellico | A collection manager for KDE) that has 1500+ books in it. the program can select which fields to export to csv. For me title, author, pub date ISBN (10 & 13) I have series name and value (which book in the series is it) On a tagnet, marking a series where a book is missing would be helpful end tangent. And an ID number that Tellico assigns, so I can cross-reference.

The ability to turn off book covers would be nice. I'd hate to have to DL the covers of my whole collection, cause I really don't use the covers. they change with every release.

Thanks