Organizing book collection using Libellus' never been that simple and easy!Comments on:

By: Trish

Trish — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 22:57:20 +0000

Libellus Book Organizer is the greatest for booklovers who have large collections like I do! Installs easily. I registered using the key name and number they told me to use, and have a fully functioning copy. I did go to their website and read the instructions–it’s only 5-6 pages long. For the folks who are having problems: If you want to easily import all the info for a book, use the “Search” drop-down menu and select “Search on the Internet”. In the window that opens up, type the ISBN number for the book–OMIT the dashes, just input the numbers. Then select “Search Now” and it will present the book title, which you must double-click, and then it will fill in all the info for you including price. I have several thousand books and have been wanting to catalog them.
Thanks guys for this truly great piece of software!

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:19:25 +0000

It might be worth checking out Adobes new software, its free

http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/#download

By: TO

TO — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:11:01 +0000

Zotero is a much more elegant solution. Yes, it does require Firefox 2.X or a Firefox 2 based browser (Like Flock, or now Netscape 9) Zotero's automatic capture of bibliographic information and ability to archive entire web pages makes it a clear winner in my book.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:44:46 +0000

You’ve got to be kidding me… I absolutely LOVE this program. To the developers who wrote the code and to giveawayoftheday I say THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! I feel like this was meant for me. When I worked at Walden Books, this was the kind of information I would access when I did a search for a customer. The internet lookup function is sensational. I’m so thrilled to have this program! I used to think Quicken was my greatest addiction. But baby, I’ve found a new vice! I promise I’ll show my gratitude for this free program by telling all my book-loving friends they’ve got to get it. It’s like having ITunes for my books! The interface is simple, the look is clean. But my favorite function is the ability to keyword an idea and grab books for my wishlist. BRILLIANT!!!

By: laurieb

laurieb — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:10:35 +0000

Works fine for me! Yes, there is a little extra work in re-catorization and deleting, but I love the internet search. I can type in my book title, do an internet search, and there is my book in the list. I double click the book, and when the window opens I hit “import book” and it is added to my book list. Much easier than typing all of the data!

I do have old research books however, many out of print, so I am not sure how it will work for those. However, it was great with my trial run listing more recent books.

By: TK

TK — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:56:45 +0000

After a bit more research it turns out that this application needs Office 2000 or above JET database drivers and that is the probable reason why it crashes on my Vista home premium system because it does not have any MS Office products on it at all.

On my win98 laptop with Office 97 on… the mdb is unrecognised by Access 97 and therefore this program fails to open the database but internet searches work ok. But on my 98SE desktop with Office 2000 on it… the program works as described by those giving comments on working instalations. Yes it runs without error on Windows98SE IF one has Office 2000 or better installed. I’d like to figure out the mdb password so I can load it into Access 2000 and try saving it in an Access97 compatible format to see if it can be coaxed into life using Access97 on the win98 laptop, but I don’t think it is really worth the effort to get an mdb file password cracking tool.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:03:38 +0000

This is a good alternative:

MyBookLib
http://organizers-collection.com/view_downloads/m-soft/i-8.html

Download from:
http://organizers-collection.com/download/MyBookLib_Organizer.zip

Other Organizers:
http://organizers-collection.com/downloads/m-cat/a-organizers.html

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:37:58 +0000

If you have Microsoft Access you can open the mdb file (database file). Password is m4w4r. If you understand referential integrity and databases it is simple to import data to this. It is a really really basic mdb with a nice looking front end.

By: WoodMaker

WoodMaker — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:40:20 +0000

Why are you all belly-aching over this?

So you got hundreds of books and want to organise them…buy a shelf!

I’m mystified why people use software to solve every dilemma in their lives.

How quickly can you walk to a shelf and scan your eyes over a row of books to physically read it….compared to switching on your PC, have Windows load, have the app load, do a search, discover it’s on that shelf behind you, and read the book online while having small amounts of radiation fired into your eyes and brain!

Sheeeeesh!

If this software usually costs money – that’s daylight robbery! However, it’s people who cut their programming teeth on coding these basic things that we are indebted to for every single thing we do on our computers. More power to them. Without the Loneliness of the Long Distance Programmer there’d be no Internet.

By: kilowatt

kilowatt — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:27:54 +0000

WOW,I can’t beleave it’s not a video converter! Thanks GOTD.