Book Crawler app for iPhone and iPad

4.8 ( 5968 ratings )

Book Reference
Developer: Jaime Stokes

Free

Current version: 6.9.4, last update: 3 years ago
First release : 21 Dec 2009
App size: 91.51 Mb

Forgot which books you have read? - Tired of buying books you already own? - Is the book available at your local library? - Want to tell others about what you are reading and share thoughts?

There’s a BOOK CRAWLER app for that!

• "Were not exaggerating when we say Book Crawler is for the book obsessed." – FOX News

• "So useful..." –The Huffington Post

• “Perfect for fledgling book clubs and wannabe swappers.” – Better Homes and Gardens

• “3.5 Stars; An excellent way to create and keep a database of your books…” – MacWorld
• “A great tool for locating books, finding reviews and talking about books with friends.” – ADWEEK

• “Perfect for avid readers…” – Boston.com

• “The coolest thing Book Crawler offers is location-based so you can discuss books with people near you as well as find nearby copies of books by your favorite authors.” – HowStuffWorks

FEATURED IN:

• The Wallstreet Journal | Technology Report – August 27, 2012
• The Washington Post | Magazine – June 9, 2014
• Open Education Database OEDb.org

With Book Crawler, you finally have a way to quickly and accurately upload your entire book collection into one easy-to-manage library cataloging database! Adding new books to your database is simple and fast with the ISBN barcode scanner or manual number search. Title, author, publisher, copyright, cover art, summaries, Goodreads ® reviews, and local library location/availability are automatically generated when you enter a book. World’s first location-aware app helps you share and discuss books with others near you. Powered by OCLC WorldCat ®, locate books and know their availability at a selected library. Sort and search your library collection with selected or custom parameters to quickly categorize or navigate your entries for quick recall.

Established in 2009, Book Crawler has been supported and updated based off of continuous user feedback. Book Crawler is a great tool for library professionals, book collectors, avid readers, teachers, and students!
Note: Book Crawler is not an e-Reader and does not allow you to read books.

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FEATURES:

*Proven performance: currently supporting users with 10,000+ book entries

*Harness the power of Google Books ® to support searches, book summaries, and downloadable cover artwork

*View what others around you are reading and partake in discussions using the new Community feature

*View/Post Goodreads ® reviews for your books, and download your library

*Purchase books through iBooks ®

*Locate books available for checkout at nearby libraries; Featured Partnership with OCLC WorldCat ®

*Use Dropbox ® service or email to import CSV and SQLite files

*Supports ASIN format for logging Amazon Kindle ® e-books

*Upload books using integrated ISBN barcode scanner. Batch scanning support for multiple entries

*Link to your favorite e-Book reader to read digital copies

*Smart Collection function allows you to customize sorting and searches based on rules you set (e.g. books read in the last year, by genre, etc.)

*Share your favorite books via Twitter, Facebook, & Goodreads; or by emailing them to your friends

*New entries automatically load title, author, artwork, genre, series, ISBN, publisher, format, and copyright for most books

*Sort and view your database by title, author, copyright, date, decimal, genre, collection, rating, if read/when, ownership status, media format, series information, loan status, price, or customizable fields

*Enter multiple books by author or multiple authors for a book

*Detailed in-app and developer website user guide

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New features and improvements are continuously added to make Book Crawler the most useful book cataloging database available! We make every effort to provide expedient and personalized customer service, should you have a question or issue.

Pros and cons of Book Crawler app for iPhone and iPad

Book Crawler app good for

very useful, very nice app to build a database of my library I was quite fed up to buy books I already owned and had forgotten about. no longer happens now very comprehensive and the developper is quite responsive in his support thanks

Great application served and supported by wonderfully dedicated people. I recommend it.

Excellent tool to keep track of my 860+ cookbooks back up and sync between iPhone and Mac should be improved

very useful when you have books in different locations and need to be reminded of what you already read, own and want. Well organized, good screen layout, good interface thru ISBN and outside sites area for improvement: save to dropbox still a tad slow

It could only update the currency, because once I moved to one country to other, and it changed the currency automatically, but then I came back to the older country and the currency was not updated. But, despite this, I love this app very much!

Improved a lot with the recent updates and so handy great app love it.

Some bad moments

Works well on my phone, very slow, but it works...but has never worked on my iPad. Would be great if it would work there.

Quite frankly the ISBN scanner freezes 80% of the time. It is actually faster to use the google option to find your books online. Instead of being a quick means to build a book database it is slow and tedious. I want my money back.

Please fix the iOS 7 version. It crashes and freezes constantly. I used to love this app. Im stuck with the app since I spent all my time scanning everything but Id really like it to work better. Ill fix this review once thats happened. Thank you.

Since the latest release the in-app search of book titles no longer works,abending the app each time you type a letter in the search box.

I purchased the app and when I noticed a problem I sent an email about it. Never heard back and never got a response. I saw that someone else had posted about the same issue on the developers forum, but that was ignored as well.

Many small ans large bugs notably in the display (I found several, sometimes its easier to close the app or go in a different section and come back in order to fix the display). Moving books from one author to another (because the app tends to create duplicates) can and will corrupt the database. Also a bug in search, where I have a book titled "La terreur verte" that I can find using the search term "verte" but not with "terreur" although it finds other books with "terreur" in the title (2). Not Terrific :-) And its difficult/imposible to track books you are looking for at the bookstore or public library since you can only search books using 1 criteria (collection, author, etc) . Thus you cannot find books by author X that you have not read, for example. It will also not show easily books belonging to the same series. I would like an option to only display the fields that I want in order to keep the display clean and more easily readable. If you have books in a Series, then I cant see a way to display the other books in the series easily. Cant click on the Series name, nor search by series name. You have to browse through a list of books sorted by series, rather... not particularly convenient. Astonishely, I initially found this was the best book-cataloging app out there for iOS, so the others were even worse. Its got potential, but is still a long way to be perfect. The app I used to have on my old Palm Tx was simpler yet more practical to use. I miss it.

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