BookCAT is a powerful database program designed specifically to maintain an inventory of your book collection.

BookCAT is used by book-lovers, schools, churches, clubs, and business libraries. Using BookCAT you can quickly catalog your books by downloading information from the Internet. BookCAT is a program that will maintain the inventory of your book collection.

BookCAT will help you track what you have in your library, where it is (including books out on loan) and the total value of your collection.

Here are some key features of "BookCAT":

· Store information about an unlimited number of books.
· Save time: Download book data from the Internet
· Adapt the program to your own needs
· Use the Form Designer to redesign the field layout in all data entry windows
· Comprehensive set of data fields enabling you to catalog a wide range of information
· More than 30 custom data fields
· Add personal comments
· Store book covers, as well as pictures of authors
· Use BookCAT Explorer to view information about authors and books
· Find information quickly
· Use the search and replace function to search for a specific word or number and replace it with another
· Sort data by any field with up to five sort levels
· Create your own reports with exactly the layout you want, or use one of the more than 80 pre-defined reports
· Preview reports on screen before printing
· Archive reports
· Keep track of books on loan
· Use the HTML Generator to quickly generate documents to be published on the Internet
· Analyze your collection in a variety of ways with the statistics module
· Export data to ASCII text files to bring the information into other applications
· Backup your valuable data with the backup/restore module
· Microsoft Access database format

Requirements:

· 256 MB RAM

Limitations:

· Nag screen
· This is a 30 days evaluation period limited to 40 books

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· The setup program now asks if you want to install the updated explorer templates (if you click Yes, the old templates are automatically backed up).
· Download from Internet: Added a new site to query: German National Library.
· Download from Internet: Added a Report Problem button. If some information isn't downloaded correctly, click this button to report any problems to support. BookCAT will prepare an email with the selected sites and a list of the isbn numbers that did not download/were not found.
· Download from Internet: Added a role column in the Author field (just like in the Book Edit window).
· Loan: Send e-mail notifications: Added support for TLS ("Transport Layer Security"). This makes it possible to send e-mail via Gmail. For more information see the FAQ.
· Loan: 'SMTP Server' window: You can now test the setup by clicking the Test button.
· Database: Added the ability to set a main genre. The main genre is shown in bold in the data entry window, and is available via th...