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A great app! Fairly easy to import new titles. Some suggestions to optimize usability of the bookbuddy (and moviebuddy) app: 1) batch edit function. at present you can only edit items one at a time, field per field. provide for the ability, in list view, to select multiple items; then have the ability to apply an edit, to a single or multiple fields, to all selected items. 2) search query. at present the search function will only search the titles of items. provide a module that allows for a multi-parameter or multi-field search; for example by tag(s), genre, or combination of fields. 3) desktop app, or desktop web browser-based interface. a lightweight desktop app or desktop web browser interface that syncs with your mobile device(s). this would greatly aid in database management, as managing from the mobile device interface is clumsy esp. when needing to edit each record one at a time, field by field.

The process of uploading my library has been a nice way to end my day lately. One shelf at a time and I actually don’t want it to end bc it’s been relaxing and meditative! I’ve decided I will upload my teens’ books (under their own categories) bc of course I’ve wondered if they have a book when I see a great one. I love the ‘condition’ field: I made one called ‘terrible, replace’ so if I see a better copy of a book it’s just a click away to see if I should bring it home. I love my home library and I love this app!! I asked about ‘original copyright’ date bc a scan will fill in the date of that specific books publication. I like to know the original date even more so for context...the after publications are not so important. They said that feature would be coming within the year.

I wanted a way to record every book I read, both for my personal library and for homeschooling purposes. I have a day each week dedicated to reviewing children’s books and I wanted an app that would 1) easily import book details via a barcode scanner, 2) store my personal notes for future access, and 3) organize titles by a variety of sortable tools. This app delivers. I greatly appreciate how “tweakable” the app is. My usage of the app has changed since I honed in more on my specific library management needs. For example, I no longer consider the app to be a catalog of my physical library, but a log of every book I read and review. I am very pleased with the way the settings give me the freedom to customize my app experience. I once panicked, thinking that the app lost one of my books. It didn’t. I had changed the title’s rating and forgot that the library was being sorted by rating, thus moving the book to a different section. The backup and syncing settings give me great peace of mind that the hours I’m devoting to recording my book reviews will not be lost. This app is worth every penny.

In the past I’d often have to manually enter book titles because the app would be unable to pull up the information through the scanner but now I haven’t had to do that in forever. It’s been flawlessly producing the relevant info for the books. Only downside if you collect manga like me is that quite a few of the series just have the basic title so you end up having to enter Volume 1, Volume 2 in the title to prevent the app from claiming you already have this book. It’s not a major downside for me but it’s definitely something you’ll have to deal with if you’re scanning in a large number of manga titles in one go.

We are an elementary school PTA using this app for a lending library of over 1,000 books. It is really easy to use and the app developer is very responsive. That’s important because we didn’t want to invest our time and energy scanning the books into an app that was not well-supported (or might be discontinued)! Syncing via Dropbox allows multiple volunteers to check-out books to kids at the same time. Our big request would be to have the app populate GRL and Lexile level when adding books to the catalog, as we need all books to be leveled for the kids!