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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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..

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?

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.com/5169425/calibre-manages-your-e+book-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.

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.