\n<\/a> target=”_blank”>Bookpedia by Bruji is a Mac OSX
\nprogram that is
\nquite beautiful in its functionality.<\/p>\nThe interface is very similar to iTunes
\nand is fairly intuitive. It is quite easy to add books and you can do
\nit is several ways. \u00a0You can type in a title and then have it
\nsearch locations such as Amazon to get all of the metadata and cover
\nart for the book. \u00a0You of course can enter a book in manually
\nif it is nowhere to be found \u00a0A real cool feature is that I
\ncould use the built in iSight camera in my iMac to read the barcode
\nfrom a book. \u00a0Once it successfully reads the bar code it looks
\nup the book and enters all of the information. \u00a0Since I
\nalready had a database of books I have read over the last couple of
\nyears it was important that I could import that data.
\nBookpedia will read the export format of several popular
\nprograms and has a variety of import templates. \u00a0I was able to
\nconvert my database to CSV and then have it import all of my old
\nrecords.<\/p>\n
The Collections pane contains your main
\nlibrary, but you can also add special collections, smart lists, and a
\nborrowed and wish list collection. \u00a0The smart list lets you
\ndefine data critera from any field with a number of options and is very
\nflexible \u00a0I was able to quickly put together a collection of
\nall the books I read last year and this year and was able to find out
\nthat I read 160 books last year. \u00a0When you import a collection
\nit creates a new collection so you can massage your data if necessary
\nbefore adding it to your main library. \u00a0You can also export
\nyour data in a number of ways to text, html, ftp, and to an iPod.
\nThe iPod export functionality works quite well. In the
\nprogram I wrote I would export a report of wish list items and then
\nmanually copy it to my iPod. \u00a0This way when I was at a
\nbookstore or used bookstore it was quite convenient to refer to the
\niPod notes to lookup books I wanted.<\/p>\n
The metadata for each book entry is
\nextensive and also allows for you to define custom fields for other
\ninformation you might want to track. \u00a0There is also a tab for
\nselling information \u00a0and another that allows you to store
\nlinks for the specific book or to contain other images. \u00a0The
\nsearching feature works well and includes spotlight information. This
\nworks quite well so I can type a name in Spotlight and then select it
\nand have it open the program and display the entry for that book.
\nThere is also a full screen mode where you can navigate the
\ncovers and select them for more information along with another screen
\nthat shows a bunch of statistics along with charts.<\/p>\n
This is just a very impressive program and
\nat a price of only $18 is
\nquite a deal. \u00a0As someone who writes software for a living I
\nwas quite happy with the flexibility of this program and how you are
\nable to setup the views just as you want. \u00a0With most programs
\nthere is pretty much always a feature missing that the only thing in
\nBookpedia that I would want is the ability to import a Amazon wish
\nlist. \u00a0This is just a great Mac program.<\/p>\n
I have only been using a Mac since October, but when my Windows machine
\ndied last week it didn’t upset me too much even thought the machine was
\nonly about 15 months old. \u00a0I now do everything on my iMac
\nincluding ironically Windows software development with Visual Studio
\n2008 via VMWare Fusion which offers great virtualization and I can run
\nXP and Vista at pretty much native speeds on my iMac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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