BiblioExpress

Combining your imagination with a book can be a lot better than any video game or TV show. However, books are not only about taking you through fantastic journeys in your mind, being also a powerful resource for study and research. Since searching through a book for the right paragraph can take a lot of time, applications like BiblioExpress give you the possibility to store specific data, as well as where exactly you grabbed it and from what book.

The application doesn't need to be installed to properly function so you can simply deploy it on a removable storage device to use it on the go and also have documentation at your fingertips. It only uses a few system resources so you can safely run it on most configurations, which adds a lot to flexibility.

In terms of visual design, elements are kept simple, letting you accommodate in a jiffy. A rich collection of presets lets you get an idea of what can be accomplished and you can even use examples as a starting point for your projects. A side panel lets you create custom folders to organize entries, which are displayed in a list along with a few corresponding details and content individually shown in a different panel.

You can add an impressive amount of details, with a few creation methods at your disposal. By default, you're facing a handful of fields to fill on the spot, with entries like reference type, authors, title, year, volume, start and end page, label and more.

If you want to add more details, it's best to switch to the “All Fields” tab. These are filled in the same manner, but with a lot more requirements. To ease your work, you can collapse or expand parent categories such as detail, publishing, classification, identification, access, custom, checkings and stamps.

At its core, the application is made to help you easily store references to know where to find content of interest. However, if you have the book in electronic format, a built-in text editor lets you import it. This adds a lot to flexibility, letting you also keep a well-organized collection of your favorite books. If you don't want to go through the hassle of managing text, you can simply attach the corresponding file.

There's an integrated search engine you can use to quickly find specific books in case your database gets too crowded. All queries are stored for more comfort. For export, the application lets you generate a TXT file or have a custom list printed out on a sheet of paper.

Bottom line is that BiblioExpress is a powerful application with which you can perform several operations related to books and their content. Besides keeping track of certain paragraphs you can add the whole content, organize them in custom folders and even save a reference list to file. Don't forget that this can be done from any computer, because the application is portable.