Adding Books

Contents:

• Introduction
• Creating your Database
• Adding your first Book
• By Title
• By ISBN

• Editing Book Details
• Demo Video
• Advanced

Introduction

The best way to catalog books in Book Collector is to use the Add Books Automatically screen (see Figure 3 below). This provides you with detailed information from our online database, such as author, title, publisher, genre, characters, cover images, edition and much more.

We recommend searching by ISBN as it provides an exact regional match but you can also search by title. A title search will give you a list of results from which you can select the correct edition.

When you first try to add a book you will receive a warning that you are using the Example Database, it's up to you how you proceed. You can try adding books to the example collection to get a feel for how everything works, or you can get started immediately by creating your own database.

Creating your Database

To get started with cataloging your Book Collection you'll need to create your own database.

1. Click File > New Database
2. Save your database by clicking: File > Save Database
3. Name your database, select a destination then click Save

By default your collection will save in your documents folder. You can find it here:

We recommend you save your collection in the default folder.

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Adding your first Book

There are two primary methods for adding to your collection. Automatically and manually. Select a method below to learn more about the different ways you can catalog your books.

• Adding Books Automatically
• Author/Title Search
• ISBN Search
• Adding Books Manually

Adding Books Automatically

By now you may have already found the Add Automatically screen, if not, click the icon from the toolbar (figure 1 below) or click Edit > Add Books Automatically (figure 2).

Figure 1: Add Book Automatically Icon

Figure 2: Edit > Add Books Automatically

Here you have the Add Books Automatically screen. This enables you to search our database and download detailed information to your own personal database.

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By Author/Title Search

To search for a book:

• Type the author/title into the Title Field


• Click Search Now on the right, or press enter on your keyboard to start the search.


• Book Collector will search our database for appropriate matches. Click the + next to the result to view all the different regional matches we have for that title.
• Double click on one of the search results to see a detailed preview on the right.

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By ISBN

Want to get organized super fast? Then simply scan the barcode of your Book (you'll need one of our inexpensive barcode scanners...).

Here's how that works:

• Step 1. Scan the barcode
• Step 2. Click Add Selected.
• Step 3. You're done!

You can read more about searching by barcode here.

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Editing Book Details

When you want to edit a Book's Details, like add additional crew members, change the physical location of where your book is stored or add a personal note, you need the Edit Book Screen.

• Select a book from your list
• Click the Edit Book button on the toolbar (third button from the left).
• Just browse through the different tabs and see what information can be added and edited.
• When done, hit the OK button and watch the Details panel change to reflect the changes you made.

More detailed information about editing books can be found here.

Demo: Adding and Editing Books

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