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BOOK CATALOGUE

copyright: 2010 Evan Leybourn
license: GNU General Public License

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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 v2.6

  • There is now support to record books as anthologies and it’s titles.
  • There is experimental support to automatically populate the anthology titles
  • You can now take photos for the book cover (long click on the thumbnail in edit)

New in v2.5

  • There is a new Admin option (Field Visibility) to hide unused fields
  • “All Books” should now be saved as a bookshelf preference correctly
  • When adding books the bookshelf will default to your currently selected bookshelf (Thanks Martin)

New in v2.4.2

  • You can now delete individual thumbnails by holding on the image and selecting delete.

New in v2.4

  • Adding books will now (finally) search Amazon
  • A field for list price has been included (Requested by Brenda)
  • You can bulk update the thumbnails for all books with ISBN’s from the Admin page

New in v2.3

  • The book thumbnail now appears in the list view
  • Emailing the developer now works from the admin page
  • The Change Bookshelf option is now more obvious (Thanks Mike)
  • The exports have been renamed to csv, use the correct published date and are now unicode safe (Thanks Mike)

New in v2.2

  • There are two additional sort functions, by series and by loaned (Request from N4ppy)
  • Your bookshelf and current location will be saved when you exit (Feedback from Martin)
  • Minor interface improvements when sorting by title

New in v2.1

  • Your sort order will be automatically saved when to close the application (Requested by Martin)
  • There is a new “about this app” view available from the administration tabs (Also from Martin)

New in v2.0

  • There is a new tabbed “edit” interface to simplify editing books.
  • The new comments tab also includes a notes field where you can add personal notes for any book (Requested by Luke).
  • The new loaned books tab allows you to record books loaned to friends. This will lookup your phone contacts to pre-populate the list (Requested by Luke)
  • Scanned books that already exist in the database (based on ISBN) will no longer be added (Identified by Colin)
  • After adding a book, the main view will now scroll to a appropriate location.
  • Searching has been made significantly faster.

New in v1.10

  • Fixed a crash on the phone (SQL Exception)

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)
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