Book tasks

In this chapter

• Adding a book automatically — Type a title, author or ISBN and download the whole book card from an online source.
• Adding a book by ISBN or barcode — Add books with a barcode scanner, a webcam or a typed ISBN, one at a time or in batch.
• Adding an e-book — Catalog e-book files: supported formats, metadata read from the file, opening the book from its card.
• Adding an audiobook — Catalog audiobooks, read tags and duration, and group a folder of tracks into one entry.
• Scanning a drive for books — Let the program walk your folders and add every e-book and audiobook file it finds.
• Covers and illustrations — Download a cover, take one from a file, the clipboard or a scanner, and add extra images.
• Editing a book — The book card field by field: General, Additional, Metadata, Illustrations and Custom fields.
• Batch updating book details — Refresh ratings and details for many books at once from an online source.
• Finding a book — Instant search, the quick filter, filters by mark, sorting, grouping and advanced search.
• Lending a book — Record who took a book, when it is due, get reminded, and look through the loan history.
• Renaming book files — Rename the e-book files on disk using a template built from book card fields.
• Copying books to a device — Copy e-book files to a reader, phone or tablet, sorted into folders by author or title.
• Exporting — Export the collection to HTML, CHM, PDF, Excel, plain text or to the mobile app.
• Printing — Print a single book card or the whole collection using report templates.