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You can customize the fields in pretty much any way you'd like, and because it's a Microsoft product, there is much less risk of the files you create becoming unreadable through time. Justin Hanisch wrote, вЂњIвЂ™m a big fan of Excel.

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We heard two votes for Libib (full disclosure: one of those was from this writerвЂ™s husband) and two for the MyLibrary app, which Andrea Brooke VerHey said is вЂњso user friendly.вЂќ ItвЂ™s also free and exports easily to Excel, reported Federica Signoriello.Д®xcel was recommended on its own, as well. I keep the database on my iMac, and then sync it to an app on my iPhone, so that I am able to check to see whether I have a book already.' вЂњCollectorz is the best I've found, by a large margin,вЂќ said Martin Stever. IвЂ™ve tried Libib & Delicious, too, but LT is way better.вЂќ Michael Bathrick agreed that LibraryThing is good but acknowledged that heвЂ™s вЂњnever found the perfect system for an antiquarian book collector.вЂќД«oth in 2016 and in our recent poll, several collectors wrote in about Collectorz: вЂњOne item I like is that there's an active online community that the developers of the app are actively engaged with,вЂќ said Mark Husk. When we asked our Facebook Friends to weigh in with their recommendations, several readers agreed with Dibbell about LibraryThing. I like that Google Sheets is вЂjust for meвЂ™ and, of course, whomever I want to share it with.вЂќ

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The latest version, allows me to read a pdf file without leaving the database.вЂќДЇB&C contributor Nate Pedersen, now the manager of the archival and reference team at the Georgia Historical Society, said he uses Google Sheets вЂњbecause I like how I can customize the fields.В And I actually don't like the social media aspects of book sites I don't really like knowingВ what other people rated a book, for example, or how many other people own it. I enjoy EndNoteвЂ™s flexibility: most of the fields can take an unlimited number of words, field names can be changed, and new fields added with little effort. Murray (hereвЂ™s his latest on sea monster maps) has stuck by EndNote, explaining, вЂњMy database on the history of cartography now has some 6,000 references in it, most of which are linked to a pdf or jpg file. Jeremy Dibbell, longtime contributor and special collections librarian at Binghamton University, is still using LibraryThing: вЂњ15+ years on! Can't imagine using anything else.вЂќ

ItвЂ™s a fabulous database, but quite scalable for very big jobs - 99% of collectors would never need. ItвЂ™s free for the iPhone and did cost about $40 for desktop, which having is enormously helpful. Howell, for example, is using Ninox now that Bento has been discontinued.

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Price, platform, and whether or not your information is вЂsharedвЂ™ or вЂshareableвЂ™ are some of the points collectors now need to consider as they decide which app or software best suits their needs. Several of those mentioned back in 2016 have since gone bust, but others are still going strong. We interviewed Fine Books contributors and readers and found quite a variety of options in 2022. As our publisher Webb Howell said at the time, 'When someone starts cataloguing their stuff, they really have transcended into a collector.'

Six years ago, we published an article that surveyed the various software and apps available for book collectors who wish to catalogue their personal collections. What is the best way to catalogue a personal book collection?

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