What's new?

New:

Group by “Purchase year” and “Reading year”

Fixed:

Details panel showed “publication date” where it should show “original publication date”
Grouping on “publisher” didn’t always work correctly

folders template

A big step forward for the CLZ Books app today, in which we add many new editable fields:

Illustrator
Cover Price
Extras
For audiobooks:

Narrator
Length
Abridged Yes/No

About the original book:

Original Title
Original Subtitle
Original Country
Original Language
Original Publisher
Original Publication Date

Of course, all the new fields sync to/from the CLZ Cloud too.

A big step forward for the CLZ Books app today, in which we add many new editable fields:

Illustrator
Cover Price
Extras
For audiobooks:

Narrator
Length
Abridged Yes/No

About the original book:

Original Title
Original Subtitle
Original Country
Original Language
Original Publisher
Original Publication Date

Of course, all the new fields sync to/from the CLZ Cloud too.

clz cloud editing key sync

Two updates for your Connect software today. An improved Statistics screen, with cool new charts and lists, plus a re-designed toolbar that clearly shows your currently selected folders and filters.

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breadcrumb filter key statistics

Fixed:

Custom images were uploaded too often

custom images

Fixed:

Custom images were uploaded too often

custom images fix

A very cool and useful addition to your Book Connect software today: the folder panel on the left now allows multiple levels of folders!

This is a powerful way to browse your book collection, e.g. by Publisher then Author, or Read it then Genre.

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folders key multi-level

With all the big comic and game related releases going on, it has been a few months since the last Book Collector update. But we didn’t forget you! In the background, we have been “secretly” working on a big update, which is available now as version 19.3!

Here’s what’s new:

Many more fields now sync with the CLZ Cloud / Book Connect:
- Audiobook length, Abridged (yes/no), Narrator
- Illustrator, Edition, Extras, Cover Price
- “Original” fields: Title, Subtitle, Publisher, Publication Date, Country, Language
- AND the Back Cover image!
The Location field has been moved to the bottom of the Edit Screen
Collection Status field is now a dropdown menu

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clz cloud key sync sync images

Changed:

Add by barcode: Swipe to remove a single barcode wasn’t working. To remove a single barcode now, just press and hold on it!

Fixed:

When changing a cover, the list and images view wasn’t updated correctly
Date pickers weren’t showing correctly
Some colours were wrong (tabs/switches)

iOS 13

As you probably know, macOS Catalina (version 10.15) was released earlier this week.
In Catalina, Apple has made two major changes, that will affect all software that you run on your Mac:

All programs you use need to be 64-bit. No more support for 32-bit applications!
All programs you download outside the App Store need to be notarized (=approved) by Apple.

Of course, our Book Collector software has been a 64-bit application since version 18.1 (April 2018). And this week, we got it approved and notarized by Apple too!

So today, we released Book Collector 19.1, 64-bit and notarized, so fully Catalina compatible!

64-bits catalina key macos notarized

Instead of working on new features, we decided to take a few weeks to look at existing screens and functionality and see where things could be improved, of course all based on your feedback.

Today’s update brings you the first batch of user interface improvements that we implemented (more coming up!), plus it bring the app fully up-to-date with the new iOS 13 “sheet-style” popup screens!

A big step forward for the Book Connect software today, in which we add many new editable fields and Back Cover images. Also, a handy new tool to fill/update your entries with information from our Core online book database.

Many new fields

Today we have added many fields to the software, all now editable in the Edit Book screen.

Illustrator
For audiobooks:
- Narrator
- Length
- Abridged Yes/No
About the original book:
- Original Title
- Original Subtitle
- Original Country
- Original Language
- Original Publisher
- Original Publication Date
Cover Price
Extras

Of course, the pick list fields are immediately available as folder fields too, so that you can browse your collection in folders by Illustrator, Narrator, Original Country, etc…

New: Add your own back covers

With this big update for Book Connect we have another surprise for you: Back Covers! That’s right, a brand new back cover field you can modify yourself.

Use the “Find Back cover” button to find one, or upload one yourself:

New Update from Core tool

Update from Core fills in the fields in your data entries with data from our Core central online book database. By default, it only adds new data into fields that were still empty on your side, but the config screen also lets you opt to overwrite your data with our Core data.

This new feature is now available for the following fields:

Publisher
Title
Subtitle
Format
Language
Number of pages
LC Classification
LCCN
Dewey

How to use Update from Core on your book entries?

Select the books you wish to update by clicking the checkboxes in front of them.
Click “Update from Core” from the blue action toolbar (it’s under the 3 vertical dots
button)

You can choose if the update process should leave, update or replace the current data for each field with the Update from Core settings popup:

fields key update from core

Instead of working on new features, we decided to take a few weeks to look at existing screens and functionality and see where things could be improved, of course all based on your feedback.

Today’s update brings you the first user interface improvements we implemented (more coming up!):

Easier to find Edit and Remove buttons on book details screen (phone only)

Easier editing of pick list fields, especially multi-value fields

Selected/checked values are now always at the top
For multi-value fields (like Genre, Studio), check/uncheck multiple values in one go!
Easier to find big button at the top for adding NEW values..

Complete Re-design of Manage Pick List screen

Easier to find big button at the top for adding NEW values.
Remove Unused and Merge action have now been moved to action (…) button top right.
Easier to use Merge mode.

Add by barcode: New Clear Queue button and new “Scanning tips” popup

Fixed:

Edit screen: the “Read it” checkbox wouldn’t always work
Re-introduced a “sync changes pending” icon to the “Sync with CLZ Cloud” menu item

barcode scanning key manage pick lists UI

Fixed:

Fix for a crash that some iPhone users experienced after adding/editing entries

fix

Several small tweaks for your CLZ Books app today:

iPhone: details page now has clearer Edit and Remove buttons at the bottom
“Sync with CLZ Cloud” menu now indicates whether there are sync changes pending.

Fixed:

Link books screen didn’t correctly search for ISBNs
Link books screen size and position is now remembered between sessions
Drag/Drop image would put image in Downloads folder when using “just link to dropped file”
Fixed a display issue with shelf-view background

editing link

Fixed:

Unrecognized ISBN pop-up was not working.
Re-added the modify author button in the edit screen

authors editing unrecognized ISBN

Fixed:

Issue where users could not sign up for a new CLZ account.
Improved error handling in the Add-screen.

adding

Fixed

‘Add manually’ button was missing in the add screen
‘Move to other collection’-option was missing its icon
When adding a book by ISBN that was “already in collection”, the ISBN wasn’t cleared from the ISBN queue

adding isbn multiple collections

This post is about CLZ Books Android v5.0.7 and CLZ Music Android v5.0.8

Fixed:

Permission dialog will now pop up in the barcode scanning screen when the app does not have camera permissions.
Small text fixes

barcode scanner scan

This post is about CLZ Books iOS v5.0.5, CLZ Music iOS v5.0.5 and CLZ Movies iOS v5.0.2.

Improved:

When trying to send a support e-mail, instead of showing an error message, redirect to a web based contact form if there is no e-mail address set in the E-mail app.

Fixed:

Re-added the ability to save a cover to the photo’s app in the edit screen. (Long-press the cover)
Small text fixes

covers support

Today, a subtle addition to your Book Connect software, but one that can save you a lot of time if you’re always adding your books by ISBN:

A new “Add [..] to Collection” button under the add queue, that lets you add all scanned books in one go. No more need to click the little “+” buttons for each entry.

Some other improvements:

At the same time, some other tweaks went live in your software:

In the “fixed” area at the bottom of the Edit Book screen, we replaced the Owner field with the Location field.

Through user feedback we found that the Location field is used by many more users, compared to Owner. Also many new users were not finding the field. So we figured the Location field deserved a more prominent spot in the Edit Book screen.
BTW: the Owner field can now be found on the Personal tab.
The User Rating field has received a make-over and can now be set using a nice sliding star thingie.