What's new in Book Connect?
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 Book Connect is the first to use the new engine, in it’s “Add Books from Core” screen!
(coming soon to the Book Collector desktop software and the CLZ Books mobile app)
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)
Recent changes
Improved managing and editing of pick list fields
April 8th, 2024
Connect is now available in Swedish!
February 21st, 2024
Connect is now available in Danish!
January 30th, 2024
Connect is now available in Portuguese, Serbian and Slovak
January 18th, 2024
Improvements to the Collections and Edit Multiple features
November 20th, 2023
Complete re-design of Edit Multiple feature
October 30th, 2023
Pre-fill screen: Orange highlights and a Clear button
October 30th, 2023
Improved search results in the Link with Core screen
October 12th, 2023
Connect is now available in French, Spanish and Hungarian!
September 29th, 2023
Improved Import from CSV/TXT screen
August 16th, 2023
Printing / Exporting a selection is now much easier
August 10th, 2023
Connect is now available in German!
July 4th, 2023
Re-designed collection tab-bar
May 4th, 2023
Connect is now available in Dutch!
April 27th, 2023
v8.0: 7 new data fields!
January 16th, 2023
New collection view : Vertical Cards!
July 7th, 2022
Lots of new features and tweaks in one go!
June 29th, 2022
Improved Pre-fill screen: choose your own fields!
March 4th, 2022
New “Add from Core” settings: select which fields you want to download from Core
November 25th, 2021
New: Progress bars for slower actions
November 24th, 2021
Search by Barry / Cloud Visibility per Collection
September 21st, 2021
Easier Columns & Sorting / remove Core covers / more Field Defaults
September 1st, 2021
Enhanced Collection Status filter and more Update from Core fields
August 13th, 2021
New fields! Translator, Editor, Photographer, web-links, etc…
March 17th, 2021
3 new settings to save screen space
February 19th, 2021