I'm not an Ebook person so when it comes to technology and books the only uses I've found are for reviews and online purchasing. However my (future) Father-In-Law told us about this app that lets you scan in and keep a catalog of all the movies you own. I made a joke that this would be super useful for someone like me if they had one for books. AND WHAT DO YOU KNOW?! They have an app for that! It's called 'Book Catalogue'. Now I immediately wanted to tell the world about this but I thought I'd try it out before I let anyone down. I spent the entirety of my day yesterday just going through the books in my bedroom... yea just my bedroom. And I scanned in 284 books onto my virtual library. So it can clearly hold a lot! And as far as I could find there is no limit to the amount of books you can store on your phone or tablet. It's also really simple to use. You open the app and click, 'Add Book' and a group of options will pop up for how to add one. These include: Scan barcode, Enter ISBN, search internet, and add manually. Scanning barcode was the easiest and quickest option, but some barcodes wouldn't enter and I had to type in the ISBN. I also found that some books, particularly in the Romance Genre, needed to have the barcode on the inside cover scanned, rather than the one on the back. As it's processing what it scanned it shows you that it's checking with Goodreads, Amazon, and Google Books to properly identify the book. Another nifty thing is that you can have multiple bookshelves! All you do is go to 'My Books' and there is a little button that shows three dots, when you click on it it opens a few options for you and there you will find, 'manage bookshelves', once in there you can add another shelf. I tried this out and started scanning in books my sister owns. The only hitch is when you scan in a new book you need to switch to the bookshelf you want it to go to. Now, I don't know if anyone out there is like me but when I see a book I wish to read at a store, but I have to wait to buy it, I take a picture of it on my phone. This just leads to more photos piling up in my phone and eventually a bunch of sticky notes with book titles scribbled on them. How nice would it be to be able to just scan it onto a bookshelf of 'Want to Reads' similar to making lists on Goodreads?! This app could save me so much time and money! I am so guilty of buying duplicates that it's not even funny anymore. And speaking of books on a want to read list, a lot of book reviewers, such as myself, are kind enough to give you the ISBN at the start of our review! You can just type it into your phone and have it there for your next trip to the bookstore. Overall the options this app offers seem to far outweigh me having to find space on my phone to add one more app. Completely worth it. It has also asked to back up my lists onto my SD chip multiple times, which I have happily complied. You can view your bookshelves in many different ways, i.e, alphabetical, by author, genre, series, and many more. And when I scanned in a book that was already scanned in it warned me that I was scanning a duplicate! Hallelujah I can save myself so much book grief when I go to my favorite stores. So if you have trouble keeping track of your books maybe this is the app for you! Either way I thought I'd share with my fellow book lovers. May we one day own Belle's library. I have included the link to it for google play store. QUICK NOTE: I took the app to Barnes and Nobles and discovered that when it comes to stores that sell 'new' books you have to manually enter the ISBN number into the app. Scanning the barecode will only work at placed like HPB. Discovered this tonight and wanted people to be aware! Enjoy! :)
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