Nearly 14 years ago I posted an article about organizing your books and reference. I had found a new (at the time) app called Delicious Library which was perfect for the task. It would organize your books, DVDs, reference boxes and other assets in categories and pulled in data from Amazon as to book values, prices and print data. Unfortunately it only worked on Macs.

Several years ago the app was cut off from using Google data and it became of limited value when updating assets and books.

I just recently found a replacement, an app called Book Tracker. It operates similarly to Delicious Library but does not access the same amount of data that Delicious Library had access to.

Fortunately it was easy to import my library data from DL and everything came in perfectly, with the exception of the book values that were listed in DL. Unfortunately the app is also only for Mac. (Keep reading for a PC option)

The interface isn’t quite as graphic as the virtual bookshelf in DL, but Book Tracker does have a nice organization system and make it easy to sort books by a wide range of categories.

The app also has an iOS version that works on an iPhone that has a barcode scanner which makes it easy to add new books without doing a lot of data entry.

There is a free version but it’s only good for 5 books which isn’t very helpful. Use the free version to try it out. For the full version, there is a one-time purchase price of $20. The app for the iPhone will cost you an additional $5, but the bar scanner feature made it worth it for me.

For PC users, a similar option is an app called BiblioteQ. It is a FREE open-source program that you download to your machine rather than existing in a data cloud server.

The program is updated regularly and is supported in 12 different languages. It brings in cover art from Amazon and Open Library, will support third-party bar code readers, works on Mac as well as Windows, and will import libraries from CSV files so it will also ingest a Delicious Library collection. It is also designed to organize and archive collections of music, photographs, journals, and video games.