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This one’s still a finalist, too, despite the limitations for my particular case, if only because it seems pleasant and that counts for something.

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In general, I think it’s important to have a lot of people literate with software like Tap Forms and its predecessors. I see there are some scripts that might help with book scanning into Tap Forms. This is something we might use to build a db if we can’t find one. Have you or anyone else had any success hacking a relational model into it? It’s just a sqlite db under the hood, right? I don’t know if I would trust the summary and comments fields, or the custom fields, to store a lot of data (would rather have individual structured entries that are easier to manage), but there’s more going on here than I realized. You also might look at the custom fields that are part of the extras in a Bookpedia database.Īh, I see that now (changing the scope of the search fields.) That’s important. Summary fields are most certainly NOT single line only and are fully searchable. Perhaps we can get a table going like the email provider thread, since we’ve only had some small scattered threads about this topic in the past. I’d love to hear any recommendations or advice to reconsider the above. Excel/Numbers: we’d like to enter data in too many fields and the relational notes we want to add would become unwieldy and buggy with lookups.

LibraryThing, GoodReads, StoryGraph, Libib and so on aren’t options for this project, unfortunately.However, it again doesn’t really support extensive notes and history on the books.

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Book Crawler: I like the maturity of this app and the database seems to handle edge cases (multiple authors plus being able to filter down to books with only one of the two authors, for example) other databases might struggle with.

Only events/notes feature is quotes from the book and can’t be searched.

BookTrack: trying to be a nice-looking Mac app and is receiving frequent updates.

DeliciousLibrary 3: doesn’t appear to support notes/events on books and has limited custom metadata available for workarounds.

(Zotero can do an incomplete sync with webdav.)

Zotero: the notes-per-book feature seems good enough, but it doesn’t appear well-supported sync is possible without cloud.

DT also doesn’t support relational data without some heavy scripting (I think.) Generally not designed for tracking physical objects. The books template is nice for creating a table of tabular data but doesn’t work as an entire database.

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DevonThink: individual entries are either too free form, or unwieldily to enter with custom fields.

The comment and summary fields are single-line text fields and aren’t searchable.

BookPedia: I very much like the ethos of this project, but its item history is limited to marking read with a comment field, and marking borrowed/returned.

And we would like to sync at least some of this between desktop and mobile, and another desktop, without using a cloud service.ĭoes anything like this exist? Here’s what I’ve looked at so far (I may have overlooked capabilities in any of these):

We would like to build a database of all physical books with some metadata (title, author, year, some categorical information.) We would also like to add searchable history and notes about books to the database. We’re looking at ways to catalog our home library of books.