(My wife’s copy of Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett was finally correctly identified on the third try.) Otherwise, you can delete the entry and/or hand-enter the information-a painful slowdown when you’re getting used to the zippity-quick scanning process. You can re-scan the barcode sometimes that will correct the problem and sometimes it won’t. That scanning can be hit-or-miss: Delicious Library 3 misidentified four of the first 10 books I scanned. (According to the author’s blog, as of last year, he plans to keep it compatible with macOS updates, but doesn’t plan to add any new features in the future.Users can see an analysis of their collection and its value. So my recommendation is now conditional, because there’s no guarantee it will remain compatible with future versions of macOS (or the Amazon service it uses to look up book data from bar codes and ISBN numbers). The last update on the App Store was a year ago, for Big Sur compatibility. But according to Wikipedia it is no longer supported by its authors. In the not-too-distant past, I would have recommended Delicious Library, telling people to download a shareware installation before committing to buy it. Which is more work than most people want to do for this task. It works for me, but I need to hand-enter the data for every book I add (and use my scanner to include the cover art). I catalog my books using a custom FileMaker database. Unfortunately, neither is a standalone app that you can use to just catalog your collection without some third-party server getting involved. I haven’t used LibraryThing, but based on a quick read of its home page, it seems to be more focused on cataloging books, with the social media aspects being secondary. The fact that you can use it to catalog your books is really secondary to it. Goodreads is a social media site for sharing your reading activity, book reviews and recommendations with friends. More than one user has blithely created multiple socks for purposes of damaging an author’s sales. ![]() They allow doxxing, trolling, fake reviews (books that haven’t even been released as ARCs and can’t have been read, have been reviewed), retributive and hostile reviews about the author not the book, reviews designed to hurt an author and their sales. They enforce civility without being restrictive in terms of what people think about a book. There’s a minority (tiny) share owned by Amazon, in order to access Amazon’s database of publications. LibraryThing is mostly owned by the founder and creator, Tim Spaulding. My metadata lives in LibraryThing and in a Numbers spreadsheet I use instead of a Reference manager (i.e. I use Collections to make it easier to locate books, but that’s about it. I don’t use Books’ metadata for anything Books can’t even properly sort and display author’s names, nor can you correct them. I use Books for reading on my iPad and Mac. in Music they removed being able to see more than the cover art, for booklets etc… why?!) – decent metadata management is literally the reason many users began using Macs in the first place and want to continue to do so! This removing metadata tagging functionality/view-ability from their ‘headline’ media-asset management apps (Books, Music, TV, etc.), all as if no one uses them, is utterly ridiculous (e.g. ![]() …if only Apple could just re-add the old functionality to change/add tags for fields Year / Category / Comments / Description back again! VM: can use it to add the ebooks to its version of Books app wait for data to sync then see the data in the newer non-VM Monterey/Ventura version of the Books app software and use it to read.Apple Silicon) when they arrive (currently my server is a MM 2018) so this likely not worth it.īooting into something like a small SSD with it on is likely to be annoying going back and forward. Options to consider for a separate older macOS version:īoot Camp: not likely a good idea, as I may update to a Mac Mini M2 (i.e. Finding almost ZERO information online about this –either from news sources, in forum discussions, or generally elsewhere– I’ve finally come to the conclusion that the only solution if one wants to remain using macOS Apple Books app, is to use the older version from Mojave that still has the missing user-editable fields still there.
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