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
Editing List Icons
With Book Collector 8 you can now customize any format or folder icon with an image from your computer. Below, (Figure 1) you can see how icons have been added to the format list to show icons for each format. These icons are then shown when using Folder View (Figure 2).
Figure 1: Format List
How to:
- Click Tools > Edit Lists from the main menu
- Use the yellow folder icon located in the top left of the Edit List screen to locate the list you wish to edit
- Double click on a list entry to view the Edit window shown in Figure 1
- Click the Browse button to locate images on your computer
You can define two types of images, a small thumbnail icon, and a larger template icon. Thumbnail images will appear in the main list, template icons will appear in the Detail Template.
N.B. Template icons are only used for the Format, Country and Language.
Figure 2: Format icons visible in Tree View
