HOW TO CATALOG YOUR PERSONAL BOOK COLLECTION USING MY LIBRARY ANDROID APP EASILY?
Locked down, aren’t we? We all are doing our bit to combat the novel Corona outbreak by staying indoors and working from home. We now have much more time to spare at home than usual. Use this time to create a database of your personal book library.
Android Smartphones allow users to use the phone in many productive ways. We all are now going through a tough time and most of us are staying indoors. Many of us are spending time by reading various books and novels. Students and educators are spending their time to prepare class notes and study materials from their personal collection of books and journals. And, I believe most of us can boast of a personal library of at least a small number of books if not thousands. Let me ask you something? How many have you have a list of books that you own or are in your personal library? By personal library, I mean the books on your study tables, bookshelves or anywhere in your homes. We can spend this #lockdown period in organizing a personal collection of books and journals. For this, I will use an App called My Library by Julien Keith. I am an Android user and you can find this app in the Android Play Store. This app allows you to store your personal library and perform a Quick Search within it.
The main features of the app are
- Add a book to your library by using the Barcode scanner inside the app.
- Add a book via ISBN.
- Search book in your library
- Sorting options
- Export to excel
- Save export database to cloud storage. Only Google Drive and Dropbox are supported at present.
- Importing of database.
Check my video workaround of the My Library App below:
The main drawback I found is that it does not allow to create multiple library databases at present. I would have loved it if it allowed users to create multiple libraries so that the user would be able to create a home library as well as an office library so as to keep track of books in home and office.
But, apart from this small missing feature the app does a great job in serving its purpose. Please install the app from the link below to see how easy it is to create your home book library database.
Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vgm.mylibrary
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Originally published at https://neelsworld.in on March 31, 2020.
