Book Crawler

Forgot which books you have read? Tired of buying books you already own? Not sure what to checkout at the library? Want to tell others about what you are reading and share thoughts?

Category	Price	Seller	Device
Book	Free	Jaime Stokes	iPhone, iPad, iPod

Welcome to Book Crawler- the HIGHEST RATED book database in the App Store based on hundreds of professional and user reviews! With Book Crawler, you finally have a way to quickly and accurately upload your entire book collection into one easy-to-manage library cataloging database! Adding new books to your database is simple and fast with the ISBN barcode scanner or manual number search. Title, author, publisher, copyright, cover art, summaries, Goodreads ® reviews, and local library location/availability are automatically generated when you enter a book. World’s first location-aware app helps you share and discuss books with others near you. Locate all books and editions written by your favorite author. Sort and search your library collection with selected or custom parameters to quickly categorize or navigate your entries for quick recall. It’s a great tool for library professionals, book collectors, avid readers, teachers, and students!

-- Featured in the iTunes App Store's "What's Hot" list for Books apps in multiple countries for the past two years! --

Note: Book Crawler is not an e-Reader and does not allow you to read books.

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* "We're not exaggerating when we say Book Crawler is for the book obsessed" -FOX News Channel, Tapped-In

* "So useful..." –The Huffington Post

* "A full-featured book cataloging program packed with thoughtful features" –148Apps

* "A must have for any book lover" –PadGadget

* "Book Crawler has the most pleasing user interface and provides the most flexibility to customize your library" –TouchMyApps

* "Contains so much information that you will hardly ever have an inquiry it wouldn’t be able to answer" –iPadsHouse
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FEATURES:

*Proven performance: currently supporting users with 10,000+ book entries

*Harness the power of Google Books ® to support searches, book summaries, and downloadable cover artwork

*View what others around you are reading and partake in discussions using the new Community feature

*View/Post Goodreads ® reviews for your books, and download your library

*Purchase books through iBooks ®

*Locate books available for checkout at nearby libraries; Featured Partnership with OCLC WorldCat ®

*Use Dropbox ® service or email to import CSV and SQLite files

*Supports ASIN format for logging Amazon Kindle ® e-books

*Upload books using integrated ISBN barcode scanner. Batch scanning support for multiple entries

*Link to your favorite e-Book reader to read digital copies

*'Smart Collection' function allows you to customize sorting and searches based on rules you set (e.g. books read in the last year, by genre, etc.)

*Share your favorite books via Twitter, Facebook, & Goodreads; or by emailing them to your friends

*New entries automatically load title, author, artwork, genre, series, ISBN, publisher, format, and copyright for most books

*Sort and view your database by title, author, copyright, date, decimal, genre, collection, rating, if read/when, ownership status, media format, series information, loan status, price, or customizable fields

*Enter multiple books by author or multiple authors for a book

*Detailed in-app user guide

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New features and improvements are continuously added to make Book Crawler the most useful book cataloging database available! We make every effort to provide expedient and personalized customer service, should you have a question or issue.

Reviews

Best app of its kind
HTJax

As someone who loves to read and collect books, I often found myself in a dusty old bookstore trying to remember if I own the book that I’m holding in my hand. Or worse, getting home with my prized new book only to find a copy already in my library. Book Crawler has solved that problem. It’s easy to use and I’ve learned to customize the database to fit my specific needs. This is the perfect app for a book collector.

Not updated
njnotekeeper

The app misbehaves under ios 13: a) database storage errors with Dropbox; b) appending superfluous data unrelated to an entered book. The app needs to be retested. It was a 4-5 star app several years ago. There's no provided email address for contacting the listed developer

Janelle Hyatt: this is a lifesaver
J Hyatt

I’ve used the Book Crawler app since 2011. It really beats a notebook. I buy books that look interesting everything, including thrift stores, and I found I was buying duplicates. That was my initial intro to Book Crawler. And it’s been with me ever since.

Wonderful App!
CM Bear

Book Crawler is making it so easy to catalogue my bosses books! I want to do my own now, thank you!

Good database tool, horrible help.
001jhale

I’ve used this app for several years, and as a book inventory app, it’s very good. The help function, though, is a joke. Someone needed to spend some serious time and effort and provide detailed help. For ex, can I add a photo of an author if the system can’t provide one? I wouldn’t know. No help there that I could find anywhere.. And the app doesn’t appear to be able to automatically sync between devices, say an iPhone and iPad. No help there that I can find. Also, the product doesn’t appear to have been updated in a year. Zero bugs? Have we been abandoned?

Clunky Waste of Time
Thnxbutnothnx

I’m using a new IPhone 11 and the Scanner rarely works. Reads incorrectly when it does. Automatically retrieving data on Classics is a hit and miss so prepare to manually enter darn near everything. It’s nearly impossible to keep track of what has been successfully scanned/loaded and hasn’t as the app seems to temporarily (maybe permanently) mix up your covers and ISBNs, sending your labor of love into no-man’s land while you twiddle your thumbs and hope it finds its way back from the black hole that inhaled it like a veracious beast, and all this hopefully before you meet your Maker! Waste of money!

iCloud synchronization?
MoBoost

Update: Found another app with all of the right features, plus clean backup and syncing among devices. This, plus recent issues with Book Crawler acting squirrelly means I’m moving on. I’m a long time user of Book Crawler and appreciate how well it works cataloging my collection. It does need iCloud syncing so that my library is available on multiple devices, with the images. The clunky csv export/import process is not sufficient.

Book Crawler
jcsings1

It appears that this app is nonfunctional as of this year-2020. There is no support nor any way to reach the developer.

Not functioning
jesdakota

I like this app in theory but it crashes every two seconds and the scanner only focuses every fifth or so time I try to use it. Regret paying for the full version.