NEW: Choose between Light, Dark or System skins

Yes, We’re getting rid of the gray!

Book Collector now comes with a skin system, which affects the look of all screens in the program,
main screen, edit screens, add auto-screen, sync screen etc.. even the settings screens.

We have designed two different skins for you to choose from: Light and Dark.
The third option “System” is basically the old pre-v16.3 look.

  • Light: A clean look, white backgrounds, dark fonts. Very readable, easy on the eye.
  • Dark: A cool looking, modern design, with dark backgrounds, light fonts.
  • System: Keep things as it was, with the program following your Windows theme.

Please note:
The program now defaults to the Dark Skin. You can change to a different Skin using the Skin option in the View menu.


NEW: Quick Filter panel in main screen

The Alphabet Bar, launched about a year ago, is still one of the most popular tools, as it helps you to instantly list just the books for which the Title or Author starts with a particular letter. So we expanded on that idea:

Today’s update introduces the Quick Filter panel, a new panel on the left side of the main screen, that lets you easily “zoom in” to a sub-set of your collection.

  • Open the Quick Filter panel by moving your mouse pointer to the left of the screen,
    making part of the panel slide out. Now click the panel to open it.

  • Quick Filters are available for the following fields:
    • Collection Status (All / Collection / Wish List)
      (this replace the tabs at the bottom left)

    • Read it: Yes vs No
    • My Rating
    • Publication Year
    • Number of Pages


Recent changes

v23.1: Now supports our new CLZ Scanner barcode scanner app Mar 27, 2023 v23.0: 3 completely new data fields and 4 new sync fields Jan 16, 2023 v22: Configurable Pre-fill & Update from Core + WebP support Mar 10, 2022 v21.5 Improved Submit to Core system Oct 08, 2021 v21.4: Bar chart in folder panel background Sep 14, 2021 v21.3: New “Transfer Field Data” tool Aug 09, 2021 v21.2: New Link Books with Core screen Apr 28, 2021 v20.3: More fields now sync to CLZ Cloud / Book Connect Mar 24, 2021 v21.1: More fields now sync to CLZ Cloud / Book Connect Mar 22, 2021 v21.0.3 Various improvements and fixes Mar 04, 2021 v21.0: New: Pre-fill fields while adding books Jan 18, 2021 v20.2: Now fully Big Sur compatible Dec 01, 2020 v20.5 Easier access to the Manage Pick Lists screen Aug 25, 2020 v20.4: Changing your folder field is now much easier Jul 30, 2020 v20.3: Faster image downloads, faster Update from Core Jun 25, 2020 v20.2: Faster Shelves View + 2 new Shelf Styles Jun 08, 2020 v20.1 Faster CLZ Cloud syncing! Apr 09, 2020 v20.1 Faster CLZ Cloud syncing! Mar 25, 2020 v20.0.2 Better Tag editing / Faster syncing Feb 04, 2020 v20.0.4 Now syncs through our brand-new CLZ Cloud Sync-server Feb 04, 2020 v20: Folder panel improvements + new Statistics screen Jan 13, 2020 v20: Dark Mode support / Many new sync fields (inc back covers!) Dec 04, 2019 19.3: Many more fields now sync with the CLZ Cloud (inc. Back Cover)! Oct 14, 2019 v19.1: Now fully macOS Catalina compatible! Oct 09, 2019 v19.2.1: New: Duplicate Finder tool Apr 15, 2019

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