Collectorz.com: Book Collector v5

Software Review of Book Collection Database

© Susan Whelan

BookCollector Home Inventory Software, Bitz and Pixelz

Book collections can represent a significant investment. Use home inventory software to catalogue a collection for organisation and insurance benefits.

Dutch software company Bitz and Pixelz has developed a range of collection inventory software packages suitable for householders and small lending libraries. The Collectorz.com suite of home inventory databases simplifies the task of cataloguing, tracking and organising books, movies, music, comics and games.

Book Collector v5 Features

Features include:

Benefits and Limitations

The Loan Manager feature is useful for those who regularly loan books from their collection to others. A name, loan date and due date can be entered. The software is suitable for home use or small lending libraries for organisations such as a church, play group or support group. There is only a single field for borrower details, however this is sufficiently long enough to record a name and contact or membership number if required.

Home book collections can represent a significant investment by householders. Unfortunately, they are often overlooked or the value is underestimated when taking out home contents insurance. Book Collector enables householders to quickly assess the value of their collection to ensure that they have adequate contents insurance coverage.

Despite the very user friendly format, the large number of data entry fields could cause some users to feel overwhelmed. The software functions equally well for basic data entry (title, author, value) or detailed entries including plot summaries, character information and various details such as publisher, edition and dimensions. By considering what they wish the software to achieve, users can choose which data fields to include.

Maintaining a book collection catalogue should help to avoid duplicate purchases, saving money. It is possible to mark books as in collection, wanted, for sale, on order or not in collection, allowing readers to note details of books that they have read but do not own or books that they own but wish to sell.

Book Collector Standard and Pro Versions

Book Collector standard version has the full range of database fields, excluding the loan manager, but allows only simple print list format.

Additional Pro version features:

System Compatibility

The Windows edition of Book Collector is compatible with Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP and Vista. It is available in the following languages: English, Dutch, German, French, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Croatian, Indonesian.

The Mac OS X edition of Book Collector is compatible with OS X 10.3 or higher, including Leopard. The Mac edition is available in English only.

Other home inventory software from Collectorz.com includes:

A limited entry trial version of Book/Movie/Music Collector is available from the Collectorz.com website. The software can be purchased for immediate download for $24.95 (Standard) or $39.95 (Pro). Discounts are offered for multiple package purchases.

Book Collector v5 is a comprehensive and versatile inventory software package suitable for those looking to manage and maintain a small lending library, catalogue a home book collection or prepare a home inventory for insurance purposes.


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