Book Catalogue

Evan Leybourn

About this app

An open source book cataloguing application (source on github). Books can be added manually, by ISBN, or barcode.

Remember to backup and export your existing catalogue before you upgrade!

Book Catalogue is NOT a book reader.

Features include:
* Sorting by author (last name), title, series, etc.
* user-defined sort and list styles
* Search Amazon, Google Books, goodreads and LibraryThing for data
* Searching
* Thumbnails (download, gallery or camera)
* Loaning books
* goodreads synchronization
* Export and Backup
* Bookshelves (books can be on multiple shelves)

Want a wishlist? Just create a bookshelf called 'Wishlist' and start adding books.

Please email us (below) if you have any issues after an upgrade.

Wiki can be found at:

https://github.com/eleybourn/Book-Catalogue/wiki

Full history at:

https://raw.github.com/eleybourn/Book-Catalogue/master/README

Recent History:

New in 5.1.0

* Italian translation (Eugenio Davolio)
* Spanish translation (José M. Galdo)
* Turkish translations (Emir Sarı)
* Ability to archive only new/updated books and to exclude covers (or books)
* Better thumbnail size in lists for high density screens
* Added options to see books by author/series at Amazon
* Other minor bug fixes


New in 5.0.8

* More German translation updates (Robert Wetzlmayr)

New in 5.0.7

* Fixes to bugs introduced in 5.0.5!

New in 5.0.1-5.0.5

* Style 'Added date' is now in descending order for Android 2.2+
* New field: Language
* Minor Performance improvements for Android 2.2+
* Translation updates (Imkal)
* Bug fixes

New in 5.0.0

* A non-editable view of book details, with 'fling' support! (Nick Silin)
* Archiving of entire catalogue, including books, covers, preferences and styles
* Updated and improved interface, including Action Bar suppor (should work better on devices without menu buttons)
* Support for pic2shop scanner
* More French translation updates (Imkal & Djiko)
* More German translation updates (Robert Wetzlmayr)
* More Russian translation updates (Nick Silin)
* Bug fixes

Ratings and reviews

Basically now unusable. Seems to only have one source so just doesn't find books when you scan. Or they find the wrong book, or they record in a slightly different way (e.g. the author's name has a period at the end so doesn't group with their other books The thought of starting again and re-doing almost 2000 books is a nightmare!

Great help BUT, there are two annoyances for me. Firstly when adding new books by scanning or manually, the default Bookshelf can't be set. It just seems to throw up the same wrong one until something happens (God knows what) then it changes to the last one entered. I wish it allowed bookshelves to be added on-the-fly and the used the new one as a default until you specify a different one. Secondly, the thumbnail photos taken with the camera are too low a resolution.

This app isn't perfect. But it's much better than the app which has a 4.7 called "My library" which I find short on features. E. G. Loaned books, bookshelves, book ratings. I find the import on that doesn't work either with an excel import. It does on this. So I've stuck with this. That looks better than this though. This is too dark as a theme. Looks wise this could improve and also include backup to cloud with the backup file rather than csv would be great on this. But these are minor things

What's new

- Warn users if it looks like covers are missing after upgrade, and explain how to fix