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BOOK CATALOGUE

copyright: 2010 Evan Leybourn
license: GNU General Public License

If you would like to support the development of this application, please donate using the above button.

This is an open source android application. Please feel free to fork, bug fix and commit back.

This is a simple book catalogue application, to store a list of your books. Books can be added either manually, by ISBN, or by barcode.

Features include;

• The obvious; you can add, edit, and display a list of books
• Books can be sorted by Author or Title.
• Books can be automatically added by typing in the ISBN or scanning the barcode. It will search Google Books for details (and download a thumbnail). It will search more sites as I add them.
• Multiple Books lists (or bookshelfs). For example I like to keep my Doctor Who books seperate from my normal fiction books.
• You can search for a book by title, author or series.
• When adding or editing books author, series and publisher should display a suggestion list
• When downloading book information, authors and titles are converted to proper case. e.g. “The murder on the links” becomes “The Murder on the Links”
• Using ISBN or Barcode scanning will also download a thumbnail (if available)

New in v1.09

• Amazon unfortunately doesn’t allow using their web services (search) on any
  mobile devices, so this has been disabled until I can come up with a work-around.

New in v1.08

• Add by ISBN will now search Amazon as well as Google Books (thanks Sue)
• The series field will attempt to guess the value based on Amazon data
• Fixed an issue for books where the date of publication is just a year

New in v1.07

• Fixes a crash if zxing (barcode scanner) if not installed (as found by Jesse)
• Adds a book count number to the main page (as requested by Keridel)
• The administration page now has a paypal donation link. Please use :-)

New in v1.06

• Import / Export and Manage Bookshelves have been moved to an admin page.
• Bug fixes in the Sort by Title view
• The options menu has been enhanced

New in v1.04

• There is now an option in the main menu to export all data to the SDCard. This will be saved as a tab separated file in the bookCatalogue directory.
• There is now an option in the main menu to import data from the SDCard. The import function, expects a file in the same format, location and name as the export function created.
• Improvements have been made to the search results screen to make it more obvious

New in v1.03

• Authors like “Marianne De Pierres” and “Ursula Le Guin” are now listed correctly. They will list as;
  De Pierres, Marianne
  Le Guin, Ursula

New in v1.02

• The, An, and A should be listed after the title. e.g. “The Trigger” becomes “Trigger, The”
• Books lists should sort by Series, Series #, then Author (or Title)