Librarian Pro for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By cricketkate

  Works well for my home library

  This works extremely well for my home library. I have not experienced any of the technical issues (crashing, long load times, search issues, etc) that were mentioned in other reviews. It should be noted that I use a relatively limited number of features, cataloguing each book in my collection with title, author, ISBN, copyright year, date last read, and a self-assigned stock number. (I add notes to some books, particularly those signed or those with family history to record.) This works well for my purposes.

  
  
• By MarcelLevi

  Few things broken in v3.0 - not worth the upgrade

  I've used this application for many years, starting with version 1. Believe it or not, each version gets worse and worse. It's a nice app, but basically once you get all your collections in (100+ movies, 800+ music albums and 20+ electronics for me) there's no going back, and no changing to any other system. They have NEVER had any built-in reports, which is totally inexcusable for a database program. With version 3,0, the Export functionality is broken. So, I used to export to CSV about once a year for a hardcopy backup, but as of to-day that isn't possible. You cannot PRINT anything from the program. All of my album release dates have always been entered as the YEAR only. After updating to version 3 they all now display as "Dec 31, YYYY". Awesome! And you can't change it - you cannot even type numbers in the date field, only point and click on a dumb pop-up calendar. Check out Home Inventory for a great database application - great for everything (except books, movies and movies) with nice built-in reports.

  
  
• By James vanderbeezy

  Love the program but always issues

  Librarian fixed the opening crash but now it won’t quickly search the web for new items, the wheel just spins and spins, saving a new book takes about 5 minutes, which means adding new books is arduous to the extreme. Every time they seem to fix the program a new issue pops up which makes me question even using the program. It used to work better, and I still have faith that koingo can get it together and make this app worthwhile again

  
  
• By GamePlayer67

  Good But a Couple of Annoying Ticks

  Generally, I do like this application as a way to keep track of my media inventory. A few little quirks keep it from being perfect. For example, when assigning books to any collections that you create, after dragging a title from the Main Inventory list into the Category folder, you are not able to simply return back to the Main List to the exact place you left off. Rather, when you return to the Main Inventory list, you are thrust back to the top. This means if you have 1,000 books and are trying to slot books with M titles into categories, you constantly have to scroll from the As all the way to the Ms (or Ps or Ss or Ws) every time you move back and forth from Main Intentory List to Category folder. If the navigation functions could be improved to make the process more user friendly, I'd give this a full five stars.

  
  

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