myBooks is a book catalog application with stunning graphics. It allows you to quickly add, find and view books in your library (with the ability to add new movies by seeking by title using amazon.com - so all book details are filled in for you!). It also allows to lend books to friends, so you can easily keep track of who you gave that copy of "The Da Vinci Code" to.
The book list has 3 visualisation options, "Wood", "Charcoal" and "Metal" which makes browsing your book list a pleasure for the eye.
Features
- Fully customizable book catalog
- Books are shown using their cover (and optionally their title)
- Sort by name, genre and rating
- Quickfind by title
- amazon.com integration (requires network)
- Lend books to friends
Walkthrough
After startup your book catalog is shown. You can browse through them using the standard scrolling mechanism.
When you tap on a book, you get the detailed movie page. In this view you can modify the fields by tapping on them. When you're done, you should tap the "Done" button on the top. When you tap the Amazon button, the browser will launch with the Amazon url, so you can get even more book details - or buy it online! If you doubletap a book in the book list, you can quickly lend the book to a friend!
To add a new book, tap the add icon on top of the main screen. It will ask you whether you want to manually add a new book, or try to find it by title using the Amazon book database. The above screen shows the results after searching for "potter" in Amazon. When you found the book you were looking for, tap the title and you are presented with the standard book editor view. When you finished editing, tap "Done".
In the main screen you can quickfind books too. Push the search icon on top of the screen, and a searchbar will popup. Start typing some letters of the title of the book you are looking for, and it will filter your book catalog in realtime. When you found the book, you tap to view it, or press the "Cancel" button to cancel your search and return to the standard view.
The settings page allows you to enable the title label (this shows the title of the book just below the cover image and might be handy of lots of covers in your collection look the same).
You can change the book ordering (either by title, genre or rating) to satisfy your own needs.
Finally, you can switch between 3 views: Wood, Metal and Charcoal.
The charcoal look
The metal look
