This is a useful app that has really helped me organize a bunch of books that I use for my students. There are a few caveats that I would like to see improved upon. The first one is when having to manually upload a book because it’s not in the system, I do not want to have to put the number of pages. For my purposes, I don’t care how many pages a book has. It’s not relevant and it’s very time-consuming, especially when a lot of the older books need to be manually entered; it’s annoying and unnecessary. Currently it refuses to let you save an entry unless you enter a number. There should at the very least be an auto setting that defaults to ‘unknown’ so I can choose that, and since the only thing I ever use when adding books to my collection is ‘To be Read’ there should be a way to autosave every book I scan as ‘To Be Read’, instead of having to manually scroll through all the books I have batch scanned, to manually select ‘To Be Read’ for each. Inexplicably, when using batch scanned it puts the most recent scans at the BOTTOM of the list, not the top. This means if you have added a big batch of scanned books all at once, you need to scroll all the way to the bottom to select those as ‘’to be read’ OR to add images to, if no image auto-populated for a book. So having a way to sort latest scanned books at the top would help if not offering an auto save feature. Another improvement I think would be adding some kind of badge that displays in the bottom corner of each book, to show how many tags have been applied already. Then I could easily see which books I have already added tags to. Another useful badge would be a ‘Duplicate’ badge- I have some copies of books that are duplicate, since I work at two sites. Thank you for adding a search feature to the tags as that is definitely helping with organizing my many tags. Another improvement would be being able to add/scan new books directly from the ‘My Library’ screen instead of having to exit out and search for the add feature elsewhere. These tiny shortcuts save a lot of time for people that have hundreds of books they are adding- even better if you could search for a book in your library and if it doesn’t come up there could be an option to tap ‘add to my library’ where it would then immediately pull up the scan/search to add feature. This is still the best book organizer, but it is far more time-consuming than it needs to be. I have found it has a really nice clean interface that is visually pleasing and it is obvious that the developer cares deeply about it.
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Response from developer
Thank you so much for taking the time to leave such detailed feedback; it’s very much appreciated. There’s a lot of really good arguments here, I will consider them forward as I continue to develop and improve the app. Some of these concerns you brought up have in fact already been addressed, though they will become available as part of the next major version of the app (which is still under development).
Cheers,
Mario
