Book Collector Manual
for Windows edition
Welcome to Book Collector Download and Install Navigating the Main Screen Adding Books How to search your Collection Adding Books Automatically Adding Books Manually Barcode Scanning Adding e-book Files Search Settings Importing from text Managing your Wish List Importing from Windows/XML Field Defaults Editing Books Editing Multiple Books List Items and more Adding Links and Files Update File Links Find Cover Image Managing Pseudonyms Editing List Icons Adding a Box Set Changing the layout Sorting your Collection Custom Field Names Using Folders Custom Views Edit, Merge List Items Customizing Book Collector Activating Connect Sync & Share Linking your books for Connect CLZ Books for iPhone/iPod CLZ Books for Android CLZ Books HD for iPad Loan Manager Printing a Simple List Lists for insurance purposes Using the Filter screen Updating Book Collector The Options Screen Print screen Keyboard Shortcuts Creating a Backup Data Submission Guidelines Lists for insurance purposes Collection Statistics Validating Book Collector Field Reference
Collection Statistics
After all the hours of cataloging your collection, wouldn't it be nice to be able to actually see your books shown in graphs? Well .. that's what we thought, too! So we have built in a statistics screen that allows you to create graphs.
You can enter the Statistics Screen by clicking Tools > Statistics, or direct, by clicking the Pie Chart or Bar Charts tabs in the Main Screen.
Figure 1: Enter Statistics Screen - Book Collector 7
Figure 2: Bar Chart Rating - Book Collector 7
Figure 3: Pie Chart Rating - Book Collector 7
In the above examples, I've chosen to see an overview of the different Genre my books are in and how many books I have on the different shelves in my book case.
You can generate statistics like the above for pretty much each field of every entry in your collection. Release Year, Producer, Author, Artist, Date Taken, Rating, Seen It ... etc.
Just click the yellow folder icon and choose one of the fields.
Figure 4: Select Statistics- Book Collector 7
Filter
You can also get the statistics for a custom filter:
- Open Music Collector
- Create a filter
- Search > Set Filter > Create/Modify Filter(s)
- All about creating filters in Using the Filter Screen
When opening the Statistics Screen, just click the funnel icon to generate a graph from your filter.
Figure 5: Statistics Toolbar - Book Collector 7