Book Collector (macOS)
V17.0.1: Major updates to the Quick Search and Image Viewer popup!
Mar 07, 2017
Quick Search: Search-As-You-Type suggestions
Instantly find and select a particular book in your local database:
- In the Quick Search box, just start typing the first few letters of the author or title you are looking for.
- While typing, a drop-down list will appear, showing the first five matching books.
(for most books, it only takes 2 or 3 letters before it shows up.) - Once you see the one you were looking for, use the up/down keys to select it, then hit Enter.
- The book will now be selected in your list, with the details showing in the Details Panel.
NOTE: this Search-As-You-Type feature replaces the old “filter-as-you-type” behaviour of the Quick Search box. If you want to go back to the old behaviour, you can do so in the Preferences screen, on the Behaviour page using the setting called “When typing in Quick Search box”.
Quick Search: Search Field selector
Narrow down your searches to a particular field, e.g. search in Title only, or Plot only:
- Click the new arrow button to the left of the Quick Search box.
A list of search fields will appear. - Now pick the field you want to search in.
- Use the Quick Search box as you normally would to search in this field only.
New Multi-Image-Viewer pop-up
Easily browse all images attached to a book:
- In the book details panel, click an image to open it in the new Multi-Image-Viewer popup.
- Click the thumbnails on the left (or just use up/down keys) to browse through all images attached to the book:
front cover, back cover, backdrop and all other image files. - No more need to close the popup and click to re-open for the next image.
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