What's new in Book Collector for Windows?
Book Collector (Windows)
v18.1: Add Books screen: Better and faster Author/Title searches
January 10th, 2018
Our web-team has been working on this for a long time: a new search engine for Author/Title searches in our Core online book database.
And it is now available in your “Add Books from Core” screen!
What’s new?
- Faster searches: Most Author/Title searches will give you results within a second. UNLESS our Core server decides to consult our “back-end” sources like Google Books, Library of Congress and other national libraries.
- Better search results: The results are now more focussed, less fuzzy, as it will only show books containing ALL your search term words (as opposed to the old search that gave you books that matched ANY or your search term words).
- Single Search Box: Just one box for search (e.g. like Google or Amazon). No more separate Author and Title boxes. Just enter (part of) the author’s name and (part of) the title and you will get the best matching results. (see the screen shot above with “crichton jurassic” results”).
- Search by Publisher and Year: Getting a lot of results? Filter down to the book edition you’re looking for by adding the publisher and/or publication year to your search! (see screen shot below)
Fixed: Various font size and layout problems
This has been a long-standing problem: on Windows systems with the DPI or Font Size set to 125% or 150%, many screens had strange font size and layout problems, particularly visible in the Edit Book screen, but also affecting other screens.
This was a tricky one, but we have finally been able to fix these problems 🙂
Recent changes
v23.1: Now supports our new CLZ Scanner barcode scanner app
March 27th, 2023
v23.0: 3 completely new data fields and 4 new sync fields
January 16th, 2023
v22: Configurable Pre-fill & Update from Core + WebP support
March 10th, 2022
v21.5 Improved Submit to Core system
October 8th, 2021
v21.4: Bar chart in folder panel background
September 14th, 2021
v21.3: New “Transfer Field Data” tool
August 9th, 2021
v21.2: New Link Books with Core screen
April 28th, 2021
v21.1: More fields now sync to CLZ Cloud / Book Connect
March 22nd, 2021
v21.0.3 Various improvements and fixes
March 4th, 2021
v21.0: New: Pre-fill fields while adding books
January 18th, 2021
v20.5 Easier access to the Manage Pick Lists screen
August 25th, 2020
v20.4: Changing your folder field is now much easier
July 30th, 2020
v20.3: Faster image downloads, faster Update from Core
June 25th, 2020
v20.2: Faster Shelves View + 2 new Shelf Styles
June 8th, 2020
v20.1 Faster CLZ Cloud syncing!
March 25th, 2020
v20.0.2 Better Tag editing / Faster syncing
February 4th, 2020
v20: Folder panel improvements + new Statistics screen
January 13th, 2020
19.3: Many more fields now sync with the CLZ Cloud (inc. Back Cover)!
October 14th, 2019
v19.2.1: New: Duplicate Finder tool
April 15th, 2019
v19.1.2: More tweaks to the Add button
March 25th, 2019
v19.1: Three cool tweaks requested by our users
March 7th, 2019
v19.0: multiple collections, auto-sync images, 64-bit and a new Flex template!
December 17th, 2018
Success rate for ISBN searches now 97%! (was 90%)
August 6th, 2018
v18.4.1: Secure HTTPS connections
July 30th, 2018
v18.3.1: Selection checkboxes / New Action Bars
May 30th, 2018