{"id":2906,"date":"2013-06-30T23:13:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T05:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/?p=2906"},"modified":"2013-07-14T12:13:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T18:13:00","slug":"books-books-begin-with-an-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/books-books-begin-with-an-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Books, Books. Begin with an App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2898\" alt=\"oldbooks\" src=\"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/oldbooks-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/oldbooks-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/oldbooks-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/oldbooks-224x150.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>If you read <a href=\"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/books-books-keep-track-of-them\/\" target=\"_blank\">last week&#8217;s article<\/a>\u00a0(the beginning of this series), and followed the link in it, you know that I think a library cataloging app\/program is the way to go for cataloging your home library, large or small. I&#8217;ve been using <a href=\"http:\/\/deepprose.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Booxter<\/strong><\/a> for several years, and haven&#8217;t been displeased with it, but have desired a little more flexibility and customization. Last year I began looking, and testing out other apps. I tried several different ones, from free to more-than-I-really-wanted-to-spend. I also hoped to find one that would be a good fit for both Mac and Windows users.<\/p>\n<p>Although I think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectorz.com\/book\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Book Collector<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0may be a good one for that, it is not what I went with. Since most of my library was already cataloged, I wanted an app that would easily import the work I&#8217;d already done. I did not want to have to start from scratch to enter my 2000+ physical books, plus another close to a couple thousand more in other formats. Book Collector, did not import well with Mac. For you that are starting from scratch anyhow, or have a Windows computer instead of Mac, you may want to begin looking there. It appears to have great features, and they were very helpful in answering questions, but I couldn&#8217;t try it out much for my situation.\u00a0If you have Windows, that&#8217;s the best I can tell you about. If you have a Mac though, don&#8217;t jump too fast there. Use their free trial, if you&#8217;d like, but don&#8217;t buy till you take a look at what I <em>did<\/em> get.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2949\" alt=\"bookpediaLogoLarge\" src=\"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bookpediaLogoLarge.png\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bookpediaLogoLarge.png 160w, https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bookpediaLogoLarge-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/>So what did I pick? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bruji.com\/bookpedia\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bookpedia<\/strong><\/a>. Look for my <a href=\"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/books-books-adding-books\/\"><strong>next article<\/strong><\/a> to see why&#8211;and what features you may want to look for in a cataloging app.<\/p>\n<p>Do you already have a cataloging system for your home library? If so, what do you use?<\/p>\n<p>[subscribe2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you read last week&#8217;s article\u00a0(the beginning of this series), and followed the link in it, you know that I think a library cataloging app\/program is the way to go for cataloging your home library, large or small. I&#8217;ve been using Booxter for several years, and haven&#8217;t been displeased with \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/books-books-begin-with-an-app\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[220,222,221],"class_list":["post-2906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-education","tag-books","tag-cataloging","tag-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2906"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2963,"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions\/2963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}