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
Importing from text
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Preparing for Import
With Book Collector you can import a .csv or text list. Book Collector's text import is limited to three fields: ISBN, Title and Author.
Your text/csv should look something like this:
Important: It is not possible to import any additional fields. Your text file must contain only these fields, and must also use the same order, i.e. ISBN followed by title, followed by author. After importing your text list you can update it with additional information from our central database (e.g. cover image, plot, publisher, etc).
Importing
Here's how to import:
- Start Book Collector
- Click: File > Import From > Text
- Click 'Browse' and locate your txt/csv file
- Set the text qualifiers and delimiters to match your text file
- Check the preview to ensure everything appears correctly
- Once complete, click OK to import the list
Text Import screen showing a text file ready to be imported.
Updating your data
After importing you can retreive more information from the Collectorz.com online Book Database such as cover image, plot, publisher, format etc. Here's how:
- Click Edit > Select All
- Click Edit > Update Book(s) Automatically
- A message will appear asking you if you'd like to link your books, click Yes.
- Book Collector will now search our online database
- Results will be shown at the bottom of the screen
- Select a result form our database then click Update
Update Books screen.
You can also click Search All to search all of your imported books, then click Update All to update all books in the list which have an exact match. If an exact match is not found in our central database, a list of results will be provided from which you can select the correct result.
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