Initially I’d opted to add not only all the books & ebooks I owned, but also those I had read, and wanted to read. I’ll admit that It took a few months to build and customise the catalogue. I was thrilled to find it worked, and within days I’d bought it all (At the time, the desktop software was required to populate the app database, though that’s no longer the case). They offered a free trial, and because I could populate the database with a CVS file, I could import a file from my Goodreads account, and immediately test the limits of the app database. They had just released a companion app for their desktop software and I decided it couldn’t hurt to give it a try. Then I finally stumbled upon BookCollectorz, one of a suite of cataloguing apps developed in The Netherlands. It was a tedious process, none of the PC software I trialed was particularly useful, (though they would allow me to print a txt document which at one time I did on a dozen or more pages, and keep in my bag), and all of the apps eventually crashed after the database reached a listing of about 1500, sometimes far less. At the time, I was specifically in need of a catalogue which I could access offline via an app (because mobile internet access was prohibitively expensive and public wifi wasn’t a thing) and that could also handle a large database. I probably tried close to, if not more than, a dozen book catalogue software/app options in my first few years as a book blogger.
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