LibraryThing

LibraryThing.com

About this app

The LibraryThing app allows LibraryThing members to catalog and browse their collections. LibraryThing is focused on books, but you can add most media, including books, DVDs and CDs. LibraryThing relies on data from Amazon, and over 65 million library records.

Add books by searching for them or scanning their ISBN barcode with the camera.

Add high-resolution cover photos of your books with the cover editor and browse your books by cover type to find copies that need better covers.

Ratings and reviews

LibraryThing itself is great, but the app is full of bugs. Scanning books almost always results in either a duplicate scan of the book, or getting a single of scanned book plus the addition of a completely unrelated book. Trying to delete a book causes the program to crash every time, and trying to edit and save crashes sometimes.

It functions and I can add books. But I would say maybe 10% of the books I add double-scan in a weird way that causes a second (completely different) book to be added to my library. This wouldn't be as much of a problem if it weren't for the fact that deleting a book from your library totally crashes the app. Sometimes, after scanning in several more books, you can get it to delete, but it does crash 100% of the time.

The desktop site is phenomenal but the app is atrocious. It crashes every time I remove a book from the library, double scans almost everything, and when searching for books the thumbnails never display. I have to go back into my library to see if the right edition was added. It's a shame, I like LT more than its competitors, but the app seems all but abandoned.

What’s new

Fix for error and crash when trying to add books on some devices.