Library Apps?
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2020 9:16 pm
So, as some of you may know, I'm a bit of a bibliophile with a collection of books to prove it. This means that not only do friends and family struggle to figure out what to buy me in the way of books...but sometimes I even forget which books I do and don't have when I'm having raptures among the shelves of a bookstore. Add to this my growing collection of antique books and my shift to specializing in classics and children's books...and how hard it is to remember which one's I'm specifically looking for.
To that end, I've been trying to catalog my collection. First I downloaded the Home Library app, which not only allowed me to keep track of my books, but also my movies, music, video games, and more. I could scan barcodes to add things to my collection (or check if they were already in my collection), or I could manually input the older books that didn't have barcodes. This app also tracked retail values for insurance purposes. I also could track what books or movies I loaned or borrowed. Also also, I could create and share wish lists with friends and family, so they would know what to get me for Christmas. It was great! Flash forward a couple years, and this app apparently has sunset and isn't backed anymore by the server or database that made it so valuable.
I found another app that is currently operational, Libib, that let me import the data from my previous app via excel spreadsheet...but it wouldn't accept any books without an ISBN. ISBNs weren't uniformly assigned to books until the 70s, which means large chunks of my collection aren't compatible with this app. It's still better than not tracking what I own, but it's specifically failing in one of the ways I need it to work.
I may have asked this here before, but in case I haven't, does anyone here have good recommendations for library apps that would help track older books as well as new printings? If it can also track movies and comics, that would be delightful, but that's less my focus right now.
Thanks in advance for any input y'all have!!
To that end, I've been trying to catalog my collection. First I downloaded the Home Library app, which not only allowed me to keep track of my books, but also my movies, music, video games, and more. I could scan barcodes to add things to my collection (or check if they were already in my collection), or I could manually input the older books that didn't have barcodes. This app also tracked retail values for insurance purposes. I also could track what books or movies I loaned or borrowed. Also also, I could create and share wish lists with friends and family, so they would know what to get me for Christmas. It was great! Flash forward a couple years, and this app apparently has sunset and isn't backed anymore by the server or database that made it so valuable.
I found another app that is currently operational, Libib, that let me import the data from my previous app via excel spreadsheet...but it wouldn't accept any books without an ISBN. ISBNs weren't uniformly assigned to books until the 70s, which means large chunks of my collection aren't compatible with this app. It's still better than not tracking what I own, but it's specifically failing in one of the ways I need it to work.
I may have asked this here before, but in case I haven't, does anyone here have good recommendations for library apps that would help track older books as well as new printings? If it can also track movies and comics, that would be delightful, but that's less my focus right now.
Thanks in advance for any input y'all have!!