JRmommy Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 I'm looking for an app for my home library. After I enter all of the books, I'd love to be able to sort them by genres. Do you have an app that you use for your home library? What features do you like? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaHill Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 I've used Book Buddy plus (for Apple) for the past year or so. I LOVE it! You can easily scan in books using their ISBN code on the back and the fields are pre-populated. If it's a book that doesn't have a scan code, you can just put it in manually. You can easily tag by genre and sort quickly. For example, we use Tapestry of Grace, so I tag my history books by TOG Year 1, Year 2, etc. And science books I tag with 'science' as well as 'nature study' or 'astronomy' etc. It backs up via Dropbox. Lauren :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPan Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 Ooo, that Book Buddy sounds slick! :) I started with my software years ago, before the iphone ever existed, haha. I have a barcode scanner, but it's a little cantankerous. I just enter things in by hand. If you have older/oop books, a lot of times you're having to import or enter the LCCN/ISBN by hand anyway. You want to be able to drag and drop from amazon the listing for your book if you have even older books. I use Readerware. We've had some library software threads in the past if you do a google sitesearch. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marisolstice Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 I've been liking Libib Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRmommy Posted August 11, 2017 Author Share Posted August 11, 2017 Just bumping this up for more suggestions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meena Posted August 11, 2017 Share Posted August 11, 2017 I have the paid version of Book Crawler. I've used it in the past to organize our school literature collection. I added the books using a barcode scanner, then tagged them with what program we used them in (Sonlight, Biblioplan, etc) and what week or unit it was used in. I could also add titles that we didn't own but needed to check out from the library. Each week I could make sure to have our upcoming scheduled books by filtering the appropriate tags and then gathering the ones on the list that we owned and making a trip to the library for the others. I haven't used it in a while so can't remember if genre automatically populated when scanning the books in; if not, you can tag them with your choice of genre label and then sort by tag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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