But the software offers a huge number of additional relevant data-fields, which you can fill in or ignore according to your wishes. That will get the basic data into your database, including a version of the cover art if it’s available. This option will bring up all matching entries in the database, so you might need to do a little poking around to find the entry that matches your specific edition.
Some UK publications of that vintage have nine-digit SBNs instead of ten-digit ISBNs, but the conversion is easy-just add a zero at the left end.īefore 1967, there were no ISBNs, but Book Collector also lets you add books automatically by entering the author and title. These days, the ISBN is readily visible on the back cover, but with older books (1967 to the mid-70s) you may have to look for numbers written on the spine, or listed in the front matter. If your book has an ISBN, you can type it in or scan it with a barcode reader, and the basic book data are pulled down off the central database. I can’t now imagine life without it.ĭata entry is easy, and highly automated. But not any more.īook Collector is a book cataloguing program from, and it’s the best I’ve run into. This used to happen a lot, chez Oikofuge.
Especially if you’re hunting for a short story and you can’t quite remember which book you read it in. When you have more than 4000 books scattered around the house, it gets difficult to find the one you’re looking for.
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