bookTome

bookTome is a highly comprehensive cataloging tool that serves both the most demanding and the amateur book collector. This incredibly free tool will let you have all your personal collection neatly organized, well documented, and up to date. Because it allows you to import data directly from Amazon, you will not need to look for bibliographic records and book covers to complete your book descriptions.

This cataloging tool is clearly oriented to the home book collector and reader. However, exhaustive the information supported per book, you will not find anything here that may remotely remind you of professional book-keeping jargon. No MARC-21 tags here, no signatures and no Dewey-like secret codes, only natural-language expressions, thus making your book records attractive, easy, and most of all, understandable. Simple and clear tags like author, title, publisher, binding, started reading, purchase price, and book description make this tool a blessing for all book collectors. Books can then be searched by using your own words within these same fields, guaranteeing a fast and accurate retrieval result. To make things even easier, you can add and edit your own tags, so you can tell bookTome how you would like it to refer to your favorite genres.

It keeps information on both the books you already have in your shelves and those you intend to buy or read. Most of the details can be "borrowed" from Amazon - you just need to know the ISBN number to allow the program to connect and download all the available information, book cover included! However, all fields can be edited - it just makes starting off much easier and faster.

As expected, you will also find comprehensive lists and reports for you to print and save, from both your wish lists and your existing collection. To help you keep your reading list updated, the program allows you to input information about what you have read and what is in the pipeline. And finally, far from being a dead catalog of lifeless data, it allows you to link your e-book files and URLs to your book records, thus helping you build your own interactive library.