I was easily able to import my tab delimited file, and with some creative use of custom fields, I captured all the information I am tracking for my 1,000 personal library. I was cautious trying Bookpedia, because the interface is fairly early 2000's, but it's really what's under the hood that counts, and Ballotpedia proved surprisingly robust.
#Bookpedia book mac#
You can buy it at the website above or on the Mac appstore for $18.In my quest to find a replacement for my homebrew FMP library catalog database, I have been largely disappointed by the pre-built offerings.ĭelicious Library has a far more polished interface than Bookpedia, but cannot handle custom fields, of which I have many, and Delicious does not easily support the Library of Congress Classification call numbers, which I rely on. If you want a nice, easy, and fun way to organize the books you own, or the ones you check out from the library, Bookpedia is definitely worth looking at. As an aside, BibTeX and BibDesk are awesome ways to organize and get bibliographical output for library.
This can be imported into programs like Endnote or another program called BibDesk. It is not for citations, but it can export it various formats, including BibTeX. The one thing that it is not is a bibliographical program.
This gives various ways to organize your books on your computer and could even help you organize them on your shelf. It acts just like iTunes in that you can create ‘playlists’ or folders (both regular and smart).
#Bookpedia book plus#
Title, tags, genre, when you read it, plus a number of user defined categories. You can have all of the information about your books in whatever order you want. The great thing about Bookpedia is that it is simple and flexible. It actually made it pretty fun to go through my books and put them into the program. You can also put the information for your book in manually. It is possible to scan the UPC barcode on your books using the isight on your computer or you can put in the ISBN number. Bookpedia comes with the ability to search for books in Amazon, and you can set it up to search in your college library or even Worldcat.
One of the best things about the program is that you can search your books in a variety of databases. Putting in the info for your book is easy. You can think of Bookpedia as a sort of iTunes for your books. It came in the form of an application called Bookpedia. In other words, it did not help me at all.Ī couple of months ago I found a solution to most of my problems. However, I was turned off of the program after battling with it to write a paper, and so I stopped updating it and using it.
#Bookpedia book software#
This software is designed to keep track of not only your own books, but of everything you read. I stated in my last post that one of the only pieces of third-party software that I owned at the beginning of my graduate school was Endnote. However, this fear bespoke a larger problem: as my book collection became larger my ability to remember what books I owned dwindled. One fear I always have when searching a used bookstore for new books is that I will purchase something that I already own. I always have noble intentions to read all of the books that I purchase, but the reality, and I assume I am not alone in this, is that a large number of the books I own have never been read. I would not claim to have the vastest of book collections (I have a feeling Matt would beat me), but I think I have a fair collection of books. But the one item that I do tend to spend a large chunk of my limited funds on is books (and rent and gas). As a graduate student one of the things I generally lack is money.
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