All My Books 6: The Home Library Catalog Rebuilt From the Ground Up
The biggest update in the program's history keeps the familiar interface, but under the hood everything is new: it is faster, sharp on 4K screens, has a dark theme, gets book and author details from more sources, and brings a collection over from Calibre and other catalogers in a few clicks.
September 10, 2026 — Bolide Software announces All My Books 6, a new major version of its book organizer for Windows; the current release is 6.1. All My Books catalogs a whole home library — printed books on the shelf, e-book files on the drives and audiobooks — and fills in the details automatically: type a title or an ISBN, or scan the barcode, and the cover, authors, publisher and synopsis are in the catalog a moment later.
Rebuilt on a modern platform
All My Books 6 has been rebuilt from the ground up on a modern development platform. The interface stays the one long-time users know, but the program behind it has been reworked completely. The book card opens about eight times faster and other dialogs two to four times faster; exporting a large collection to Excel takes 37 seconds instead of 13 minutes, and HTML and text export take seconds. The program is fully HiDPI-aware — it stays sharp on 4K displays and on several monitors with different scaling — and it gets a dark theme. The interface is available in 20 languages, and even the buttons of message dialogs now speak the user's language.
More sources, less typing
- Book details come from Goodreads, Google Books, ISBNdb and OpenLibrary; ISBNdb now supplies large covers, language, price and book dimensions.
- Author biographies, life dates and photos are downloaded from Wikipedia and OpenLibrary, and a person can have several photos.
- ISBN barcodes can be scanned with an ordinary webcam (one with auto-focus), and "Add using ISBN" also accepts a Kindle ASIN.
- E-book files fill in their own cards: EPUB, FB2, FB3, MOBI, PDF, DjVu and others, and now also the title, author, subject and page count of .doc and .docx files.
- The drive scan groups audiobooks by folder, remembers the scanned folders and can re-scan them; mass adding asks about duplicates with "Yes to all" and "No to all".
Moving in takes minutes
Imports from other collection managers are gathered in one menu: Calibre, Book Collector, Readerware, Booknizer, Medianizer, Alfa Ebooks Manager, BookCAT, the Sony Reader library and MyHomeLib. If one of these programs is found on the computer, All My Books offers to import from it, and an empty database explains where to start. Excel and CSV import and export no longer require Microsoft Office to be installed.
Presenting the collection
- Six new HTML export templates, including an Interactive one with instant search that works on phones.
- Printing, print preview and PDF export have been reworked, with ready-made layouts for lists, covers, spines and cards, and a single book card can now be printed.
- New dark templates for the book, author and friend cards.
- A new "Open with" submenu for book files, just like in Windows Explorer, and a reworked transfer of book files to e-readers and phones over USB.
Safer data
Backups are now saved to a cloud-synced folder by default (OneDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive, Yandex.Disk), and the program warns if the working database itself sits in one. A damaged database is repaired automatically when it is opened instead of stopping the program at startup. Hundreds of bugs and freezes accumulated over the years have been fixed.
"Many of our users have kept their home library in All My Books for over fifteen years, so the interface they know stayed exactly where it was," says Max Smirnoff, founder of Bolide Software. "Everything underneath is new. The program is faster, it looks right on a 4K screen, and if your books already live in Calibre or another catalog, bringing them over is a matter of minutes."
Pricing and Availability
All My Books 6 runs on Windows 7, 8, 10 and 11 and is available now at https://www.bolidesoft.com/allmybooks.html. The first 30 days the program works without any limitations. After that it stays free, with a limit of 100 books in the database — viewing, search, statistics, printing and export always work.
A single license costs $29.95 per year or $59.95 as a one-time perpetual license with free updates; family licenses for up to six home computers cost $49.95 per year or $99.95 perpetual. Users switching from another book organizer get a 25% discount, and All My Books together with All My Movies costs $83.90 instead of $119.90.
About Bolide Software
Bolide Software is a provider of multimedia products and software for those keen on collecting movies, books, images and music. Founded in 2003 by Max Smirnoff, Bolide Software has launched several best-selling projects, including All My Movies, Image Comparer and Audio Comparer. For more information visit the Bolide Software official site; press inquiries and review copies — through the contact form.
