bookTome the book organiser

[lanux128]

bookTome is a freeware tool to manage one's book collection and is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

bookTome is a book management system which allows users to enter information about their book collection and then sort and search this information in a variety of different manners.

bookTome can catalog and manage your library or personal book collection and it is suitable for collections of all sizes and types.

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bookTome  the book organiser

bookTome  the book organiser

http://booktome.shanemca.com/

[muntealb]

Unfortunately, it is completely unusable when using Large Fonts (120 p) in Windows.

[Perry Mowbray]

I'm interested why you'd not use an online service like Goodreads?

[lanux128]

seems like a good place to find like-minded readers. thanks, i'll give it a try..

[Perry Mowbray]

seems like a good place to find like-minded readers. thanks, i'll give it a try..

-lanux128 (July 13, 2009, 06:29 AM)

I think the social interaction over your books is a really interesting addition. Otherwise I'd just have a database at home too

There's also anobii that I've seen.

[MrCrispy]

I'm interested why you'd not use an online service like Goodreads?

-Perry Mowbray (July 13, 2009, 04:05 AM)

Thank you for that suggestion, I love to read and that's a great site.

[mnemonic]

There's also the fantastic LibraryThing, which has an online bookshelf and all of the book-related social-interaction you'd ever need.

[sajman99]

Thanks to all posters for the book-related links. If anybody happens to be interested in e-books, you may want to check out an open source cross-platform library management software named Calibre.

[app103]

Calibre looks like it might be just the thing to replace My Ebook Library, which was a great application, but it disappeared.

 

[Steven Avery]

Hi Folks,

Calibre Manages Your E-Book Collection
http://lifehacker.co...-collection#comments

Lifehacker, and numerous comments.  Looks like it is worth a good try, note that a few people apparently messed up their collection structure, because they did not point Calibre to an empty folder as output when reading their disk.

From reading up, now I am ready to consider BookTome (apparently more native for home collection), Calibre, Zotero and Jabref (reference manager).  (Seeing JabRef thread, add Mendeley and note Aigaion, server-based and OOoBib, Open Office based) Especially if I get back to my project that has a couple of hundred books involved.  Is BookTome helpful in that mix ?  Possibly, note that it is freeware but not open source, which might be a concern in using it for a major home library project.

Thats the major freeware installed software stuff, online tools like LibraryThing, GoodReads, Anobii, Worldcat, Abacci all have their own dynamic, a bit different.

Good timing, I'm hoping to get back into this world shortly.

Shalom,
Steven Avery

[longrun]

HomeBase from AbeBooks (HomeBase) is a free, powerful inventory management program. Although it's intended for booksellers it can also be used to manage one's collection.

[emerald222]

The software in use in my library (600 plus and counting--unless my husband has his way!) is BookCat.  Definitely NOT free, but I think it's worth it. Endless custom fields.  I have a lot of anthologies, so my favourite feature is the ablility to seach contents.  I admit, I haven't tried many other programs but I'm happy with BookCat so I haven't felt the need to.  Anyone else a user?

[Axel Foley]

Unfortunately, it is completely unusable when using Large Fonts (120 p) in Windows.

-muntealb (July 12, 2009, 11:55 PM)

bookTome's developer must have read you...check the what's new of v1.62

Bug Fixes and Changes

The major bug fixes and changes that were implemented in this version of bookTome are:

    * Added Delete Author, Series & Category to navigation bar right click menus,
    * Improved the behavior of the Complete Order button in the Wish List,
    * Removed the older, more unreliable method of accessing Amazon,
    * Minor user interface changes such as correcting menu colors and icons,
    * Added links to Google to the Amazon Web Services dialog,
    * Fixed books disappearing from Wish List if the case of the author name differed from what was expected,
    * Support for running in Large Fonts (120dpi),
    * Minor other bug fixes, interface and maintenance changes.