All My Books Help
All My Books keeps a catalog of everything you read: printed books on the shelf, e-book files on the disk, and audiobooks. It fills book cards from online sources, so a whole collection can be built by typing titles or scanning barcodes rather than typing data.
This guide covers All My Books 6.0 for Windows. If you have never opened the program before, start with the Quick Start — it takes about five minutes and ends with a working catalog.
Start here
- Quick Start — create a collection, add your first book, find it again.
- Already have a catalog somewhere else? — import from Calibre, Book Collector, BookCAT, Readerware, Alfa, MyHomeLib, Booknizer, Sony, CSV or Excel.
- A folder full of e-book files? — let the program scan the drive and add them all.
- A shelf full of paper books? — add them by barcode with a scanner or a webcam.
Everyday tasks
- Database tasks — creating, opening, backing up and protecting the collection file.
- Book tasks — adding, editing, searching, lending, exporting, printing.
- Preferences — appearance, dark theme, language, online sources.
- Reference — every menu command, keyboard shortcuts and licensing.
If something goes wrong
Support information explains where to look first and how to send a report that lets us actually reproduce the problem. A damaged collection file usually repairs itself — see Compressing the database.
Free to try. All My Books runs for 30 days with no restrictions at all. After that it keeps working in free mode: collections of up to 100 books stay fully editable, and larger collections stay readable, searchable, printable and exportable forever. Details in Trial, free mode and licence.
Free to try. Catalog up to 100 books at no cost, forever.