What's new in CLZ Books?

The app now has a “free 7-day trial” again.
No more 100 item “free mode” or “free trial”. We did our best to make it work, but it just didn’t. So we’re back to the old tried and tested “7-day trial” system 🙂
(Don’t worry, if you already started your free mode, it will keep working.)

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Updated:

Add Books by Author and Title: after adding a book, the cursor will be put back in the search box straight away so you can immediately start your next search

Fixed for iOS:

Statistics: In some cases the order under “most recent” could be wrong

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Updated:

Free Mode is now called Free Trial (still works the same way)

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Fixed:

Fixed some problems related to updating/remembering the app’s subscription status

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New:

Now supports “Sign up with Google” for new users
Some more tweaks for new users to help them get started

New:

Now supports “Sign up with Apple” for new users

New:

Now supports “Sign up with Google” for new users

Fixed:

“Don’t show again” checkbox didn’t save if the box was just “dismissed”

Fixed:

Some back buttons (and swiping to go back) would stop working after adding from Core
Incorrect error message would appear after adding manually

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New:

Further guidance and popups to help new users get started adding their collection to the app.

Don’t worry, all popups can be dismissed with “don’t show again” 🙂

Fixed for iOS

In some cases the “Add to Collection” button wouldn’t work

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New:

We changed the “buy now” text link into a big blue button so it’s more clear!

Fixed:

In some cases logging in to an existing account after starting Free Mode would cause problems with adding.

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CLZ Books is now free to use up to 100 books, for as long as you like.
This “Free Mode” includes access to all functionality, including CLZ Cloud syncing (for online backups and transferring data between devices).
Got more than 100 books? Then subscribe (US $15 per year) and add as many books as you need. Of course, feel free to try the app with 100 books first!

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This is the 3rd and last “CLZ Books 9 Feature Hilite”, all about dealing with ISBNs that are not found in CLZ Core.

But first, if you missed an earlier feature hilite, you can still read them on our CLZ Blog here:

Hilite #1: The new collections tab-bar
Hilite #2: Add Books screen improvements

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Here’s my second “v9 feature hilite” email, about another area of improvement in last week’s CLZ Books v9 release.
(tip: if you missed yesterday’s feature hilite #1 about the collection tab-bar, you can read it here).

Today, we are going to discuss the improvements we did to the Add Books screen:

Last week’s CLZ Books 9.0 update was big one, with 3 areas of improvement. To make sure you did not miss any of the new stuff, I am going to do three “v9 feature hilite” emails this week, each one highlighting one of the big improvements.

Today’s “v9 feature hilite” is about all the new collections tab-bar.

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A big update v9.0 update for your CLZ Books app today, with many new features and improvements!

Here’s the full list of What’s New:

New collections tab-bar: easily switch between collections using tabs at the bottom
Adding Books: quick “Confirm” pop-ups, instead of full screen Preview pages
Add by ISBN: Better screens for dealing with “ISBN not found” situations
Add by ISBN: Faster camera barcode scanner for scanning ISBN barcodes
New setting “Show Read-It” for showing/hiding Read-It eye icons from list and details

What’s New:

New “Delete CLZ Account” option in Settings

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What’s new:

Added a new “Remove all unused pick list entries” option in the maintenance menu, to remove all unused pick list entries in one go

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Changed:

For new users: no more Demo Mode

Fixed on iOS:

Edit screen: Picking something from a pick list: The search could mess up your choice
The sync button could show on details view

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A build full of fixes for bugs reported by you. Thanks to everyone who reported these bugs!

Fixed:

Unreliable search results after editing or merging pick list items
Edit Multiple: Some fields were turning orange once typed in
Merge mode in pick lists would not remember selection when using the search in the list
Typing a comma in price/value fields wasn’t always working
Editing a pick list item could give a wrong “Already in List” error
Multi-level folders: when filtering inside a folder the search text would clear after typing a space
Multi-level folders: When you searched an item and picked one from the suggestions dropdown, it would bring you inside the folder, instead of directly to the item
Editing an item could send you to a different folder than you were in

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A build full of fixes for bugs reported by you. Thanks to everyone who reported these bugs!

Fixed:

Unreliable search results after editing or merging pick list items
Now remembers scroll position better when hitting “back” from an item
Adding a new pick list item with an apostrophe, would wrongly trigger an “Already exists” warning
Edit screen: Picking a pick list item after tapping next/previous could crash the app
Edit screen: For some fields the selected pick list item would be added twice
Adding a box set via the Edit Screen could crash the app

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A lot of the questions we get about CLZ Books can usually be answered with:

“Just use Manage Pick Lists”

Renaming Locations, Merging duplicate genres, fixing author sort problems, fixing typos in author names, etc… it is all done in the Manage Pick Lists screen. An important and powerful screen, but… not so easy to find if you don’t know where to look or don’t even know what to look for.

With this update, we are trying to fix all that. We have made the screen much more accessible / discoverable AND we have made several improvements to the MPL screen itself.

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This update is all about the Pre-fill screen, you know, the screen that appears when adding items and lets you pre-fill fields while adding, like Location, Owner, Purchase Date/Store/Price, etc…

This Pre-fill screen was introduced in Jan 2021, with a fixed set of fields. Then a year later, in Jan 2022, it was made completely user configurable, so that *you* could choose which fields appeared on the screen.

This screen turned out to be a popular tool, but we’ve seen one problem with it:
Sometimes, users pre-fill a field for a specific book (e.g. Purchase Price or Quantity), then forget to CLEAR it for the next books they add. Causing lots of books to be added with that same field set incorrectly.

So today, we are making another tweak to the Pre-fill screen:

The Pre-fill screen now highlights filled fields in orange, so that they stand out more.
Also, we added a “Clear” button, to quickly clear all Pre-fill fields.