iCollect Books Pro app for iPhone and iPad

4.3 ( 753 ratings )

Reference Book
Developer: iCollect

2.99 USD

Current version: 4.4, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 20 Apr 2010
App size: 3.87 Mb

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Hooked In Motion has integrated with leading barcode scanning software to create the ultimate book reader and collectors application: iCollect Books.

Works with all iPhones, iPods, and iPads, with or without a camera.

Catalog every book you own. Search right on your iPod/iPhone/iPad by author, editor, publisher, and more to find the exact book you want to read at any time, without needing to sift through your physical collection or browse on a computer.

Here is a quick rundown of what iCollect Books can do:

- Scan in your books via UPC using the built-in camera (requires iOS 4 or higher due to Apple policy change).
- Manually type in the UPC or ISBN.
- Manual entry with no barcode.
- Spiders Google and our own servers for cover art and information about a title.
- If no information is present, take your own picture and type in the details and add it to our server for others to use.
- Use a picture from anywhere on the web for your cover art.
- Use a picture from your Photo Library.
- Add it to your library. Sort by Fiction, Non Fiction, or customize your filter bar right from the main screen.
- Tab badges allow you to quickly see how many books you own.
- Sift quickly through your catalog using the index.
- CoverFlow (iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and iPod 4th Generation only)
- Library view
- Backup/Restore
- Shake for random book
- Sort without The and A option.
- Loan your books out and keep track of who has what using your contacts list or custom entry.
- See books youve never read
- Entry for purchased value and date.
- Options for Number of Chapters, Pages, Year Published, Edition, Synopsis, Narrative, and more!
- Customize which information is displayed in your book cells.
- Add a book to a wishlist if you know you want to buy it in the future.
- Email out your wishlists to family and friends for holidays and birthdays.
- Already ordered a book but dont have it yet? Add it as a preorder. Add the release date as well.
- Incredible search capabilities. Browse through your library in a whole new way. Want to see all books you have that are made by Random House? Easy. Want to see all of your Japanese books only? Easy.
- Video tutorial for help.
- A LOT more!

We look forward to your feedback.

Pros and cons of iCollect Books Pro app for iPhone and iPad

iCollect Books Pro app good for

I have always wanted to track my books cause I have tons of them the only thing missing so far is a drama genre

Id like to see the added option to catagorize audio books, the closest is ebooks. Making my own catagories would be a huge benefit, lile for psychology or specific subjects. I have added 880 books. I bought the scanner ($2.99) to add my other books. I really LOVE this app!

This is my 3rd app from Hooked in Motion and I am really pleased with it. The ease of use is wonderful. Thank you guys for your hard work to make my work easy.

Great App, just scanned 127 books got most in by camera scan. A few older books worked great with manual ISBN entry. To get the cover image I used Google image search or the camera, both worked 4 starts only: because it crashed a few times mostly when I tried to get the cover image through google search. I also would like to add categories, hope that will be something for the next update. It would be great if you could download the sync data from the web into a excel spreadsheet to print or print from the web.

Very easy to use interface, and useful for book collectors. Plenty of options for customizing the info in your book collections.

Works great really helps me keep track of my library and what books I already own. Wish it had more categories for types of books though.

Some bad moments

the application is bad and not working as advertised- Neither barcode scan, nor ISBN manaual input is finding a book. Please update this app!

This is the worst app ever I had no clue what to do its so confusing

Downloaded newest update, now the app will not even open. Thought this was 4.0 tested guys!

After entering 100s of books (very time consuming) the program crashed & lost all data.

The layout was nice, but it only found 10% of my books. Even if it found them I had to enter all the info myself.

Before the last 3 update it was awesome. Now everytime i add a foreign book ( like japanese or french) the app crash. It so frustating. I can add only 10% of my collection so its useless. Make ot work like before and ill change for 5*

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