iBookshelf App Reviews

For owners of lots of books, this is a very nice tool. When I went shopping for books in the past, I had to bring ten Excel sheets (in small print) to check whether I already had the book. With this application I have instant access to me complete library. I have used several internet book databases, and found covers for practically all books. It remained four books, for which I have no cover. I would appreciate a facility to import scanned covers for such books. It was actually this application that made me (finally) buy the iPhone.

I really recommend this app

Thanks for this app. Works just fine.

It help me to keep tracking all my books un a easy way

its a very useful tool to keep tracking of your reading - specially for people like me who is passionate about books. good reminder for those you lent and never heard of again! only problem is to find more accurate information of publications in French, Spanish, Portuguese and German. even the art work is not available unless was published also in English... shouldnt the developer consider that theres people capable of understand several tongues?

I really liked this app. Its easy to use and the integration with MegaReader and QuickReader is very nice too.

Easy to use and handy. Should also include a location resource

I bought this app because I wanted to import my library. Doesnt work at all. Im sure wont enter 2000+ books by hand.

The App crashes too often and is sometimes a little buggy, e.g. when searching for a book which is already in the list or when choosing to use an existing author and then deciding to add the name manually, the selection fields stays displayed and no choice can be made. If these bugs will be fixed, then the rating will be improved to 4-5. Update: Working pretty good now. Thanks!

Thanks

I chose this app because of the build-in scanner functionality and the functional style. I like the idea of chosing themes BUT PLEASE: dont use such ugly wallpaper... I had to replace it myself to turn it viewable ;-) (this might be subjective cause I study design.. But an option to add an own wallpaper would be nice). If I figure it out how to import a database from DeliciousLib from the Mac Im going to provide 5 stars.

There is no other comparable app and it works fine for me!

This app is so clean and easy to use! Any chance we can sync with some sort of database so friends can see our libraries online without having to access via my phone?

Very handy app to keep track of your books. I really like how you can also list by your most wanted as well.

It would be nice to have a few different display options, I find the book covers display very large and it would be nice to see more at once. Also a list preview pane on the left with the selected book details on the right would be nice too. Thanks!

love this app,an absolute must have for people with a big library.

Very nice design. I like the way it retrieves information from the Internet so you can just enter an authors name and it will provide a list of books and then populate the fields for the ones that you choose. That is an enormous time saver. As well, I was at a bookstore this morning and I used the iPhone camera and scanned the bar code and it retrieved all the information perfectly. I like the back-up features as well which is important any time you are working with a database. Plus the customer service when I needed it was nothing short of spectacular. They replied to my email and solved the problem in less than 15 minutes. I was astonished to see that kind of support for an app. Highly recommended.

Nice way to keep my library, lending and want list organized. Some small kludges, but overall super app for great price.

I have tried three or four apps, and this one works best. I am withholding one star because I wish it supported multiple authors (as most of my collection is non-fiction/academic), had a field for the date of publication, and included the "Collection" field when exporting. This being said, it supports French books much better than other apps out there, and the scanner works great despite my iPods crummy camera. I greatly appreciate the ease of creating a backup, either with a proprietary file or by creating a .csv. Be careful when scanning multiple books in a row, some data tends to get lost when editing, I havent exactly figured out why. I have activated "auto-save" in the settings, well see if it works.

The first day I used this, I thought it was great to keep track of my books and wish lists. However, I noticed lately its reading every ISBN code incorrectly. And the manual entry is kind of useless. I hope they can work the bugs out soon.