Reviews from customers
Buying your program for managing my book collection was one of my best buys.
Last night, though I was under the weather with a sinus infection, I scanned another section of books from my library, came upstairs to the PC and unloaded all the info from my scanner into the book list I'm building. It's so easy even a sick person can do it!
My plan is to print Dewey labels for each book and organize accordingly. Any bibliophile loves to putter away time with his books, but Book Collector gives you more tools to putter with.
Someone will say to me, "Say, do you have something on acid rain?" With 2,000+ books, I've finally lost control of having each book at my fingertips. I can no longer retrieve its location from memory... Book Collector makes finding the book a fun process. A few clicks and it gives me Title, Author, Subject(s), and Dewey number.
Since everything is shelved by Dewey number, how easy is that?!
I LOVE this product... it includes absolutely everything a bibliophile could want.
I had been using a different music catalogue programme but was not happy with it and ended up not doing anything to it, user friendly it was not.
The main reason I am so pleased is that I has already purchased a cue cat scanner earlier this year for cataloguing my books on an American website, but now I can keep it all in-house.
Once again thanks from a happy cataloguer.
It made the much needed difference in how I organize my library. not only that, but now I can periodically export my DB to a CSV file, which I carry with me around on my Windows Mobile PDA - hurray, no more double purchases.
Contact gezocht met de helpdesk.
Tot mijn grote verrassing werd ik op zaterdagavond (!) bijna per kerende mail bediend met een voor mij persoonlijk aangepast linkje en kon ik na tien minuten weer verder.
I've been able to catalog my books which number close to 2000 with no trouble and no headaches. I was able to get a selected group ready for sale and listed on a website so easily it was kinda scary.
The person who came up with this is a friggin genius and obviously had a collection of their own they struggled with.
Well done!
An academic colleague referred me to you - oh happy day!
As any modern book collector knows the dust wrapper is a key part of collecting and the ability to download, scan & edit then display dust wrappers is almost as evocative as handling the books.
I have printed the details of different genres of my collection for friends, they then have a reference document with a dust wrapper, synopsis, ISBN and publisher so that they can build their own collection.
Ik vind het bijzonder handig om een lijstje van mijn boeken naar mijn mobieltje te sturen, zodat ik in de boekhandel even kan checken of ik een boek al heb. Dit heeft me toch al enkele malen van een dubbele koop gered, dus de geringe aanschafprijs van BookCollector is al lang terugverdiend.
Sinds een maand ben ik van Windows overgestapt naar Apple en ook daar werkt alles uitstekend. Ook conversie van de reeds ingevoerde boeken naar de Apple omgeving ging simpel en snel.
I also like to be able to track a book if it has been loaned to a friend or if it is in use. It has saved a lot of time.
I've now solved the mess of boxes of uncategorized clippings by printing a simple sequential numeric label and assigned it to the printed article or web clipping. Then into a three ring binders for shelf storage go the sequentially numbered articles and I use Book Collector to categorize and locate the searched-for article(s) for me. Not as slick as populating the database via a book ISBN look-up, but still extremely efficient. Thanks.
Having programmed in D-Base (as well as other programming languages) I can appreciate the effort that goes in to analyzing and perfecting a database such as this. I am now retired (71 yrs old) and glad not to be constantly thinking about that last tweak of the program I'm working on, and the deadline that's fast approaching.
I hope to use Book Collector to understand my library better, control further book buys, and record the collection for insurance.
Patrick W
I really love my Collectorz program, especially when I get in new books, just scan and load!
I just love the wireless barcode reader!!!! I also really like your quick response to questions! Your customer service is just great!
Boeken met een ISBN code scan ik met de cuecat. Naast het voorblad scan ik met mijn HP scanner ook de inhoudsopgave en de index. Inhoudsopgave en index zet ik om met een OCR programma en kopieer en plak ik in Verhaal&Opmerkingen. Met de zoek functie vind ik dan de boeken terug waarin en op welke bladzijde het door mij gezochte onderwerp voorkomt.
Een andere voor mij onmisbare functie is de mogelijkheid te exporteren naar mijn Ipod. Kocht ik in het verleden wel eens meerdere keren hetzelfde boek, nu raadpleeg ik eerst mijn Ipod en voorkom dit.
Book Collector is een geweldig en professioneel programma waardoor ik veel beter gebruik maak van mijn bibliotheek.