Book Tracker - Collector's Edition

With its capabilities of storing unimaginable quantities of data in a space that can well fit in your hand, computers are one of the main sources to archive info of any kind. Books already started to migrate to this popular entertainment platform, and with applications like Book Tracker - Collector’s Edition, you can easily keep a tight record of all books on your shelf.

With the setup process taking only a little of your time, feel free to run it and check the set of features. As far as the visual design is concerned, everything is wrapped around a classic Windows interface, with no shiny elements to distract you, nor anything to give it a bit of personality.

The application comes with a decent amount of books that populate the library, just so you get an idea of how fields need to be filled in. Both the editor and list viewer are in the same window, so you can scroll through the list, and edit any info when necessary, with a few mouse clicks.

As such, you can add various details like title, category, author, location, edition, ISBN, print date, publisher, condition, rating, review, length, value, and more. The good part is that the application gives you full control over names, meaning you can change fields and add other types of data.

The bad part is that there’s no way to go online and look for any details or books, so you need to use a web browser in this regard. The application can’t even grab image covers from the web, with this task falling into your hands too.

What you do get to manage are categories, besides the info fields. There’s no button to add a new one, but simply writing a new name in the category field and saving changes, gets it automatically created.

There are tons of reports you can issue, with presets letting you print out all books according to several filters, or you can take the time to customize exactly what you want to print. Moreover, multiple databases can be created and saved individually, and even exported to CSV.

All things considered, we can safely state that Book Tracker - Collector’s Edition is a simple approach on book management, but this is mostly because of the visual design. No issues were encountered during testing, even on recent Windows iterations. It provides a certain degree of flexibility and customization, and it might just be what you need.