Pocket Library: Book Organizer
Catalog books on your phone real fast with barcode scanning, book search and ISBN search. Use search and filters to find books that you’ve lent to your friends or books that you’re yet to read. Use backups to keep your book catalog safe.
Organize your book collection
This app is for all the bookworms who want to keep their personal library organized and neat. It’s also for the ones who’ve ever picked up a book and wondered “Do I already have a copy of this one?”. Get in control and manage your books now with Pocket Library!
Quickly add books into your book collection with an ISBN scanner
We understand that it’s tough to sit and punch in all your books into an app. But book cataloging shouldn’t be all that tedious. Use our ISBN scanner to quickly scan books into your book catalog. We will fetch you the details along with the book cover and a book summary as well. Our scanner looks up a host of online book lists to ensure that your cataloging goes through without any hiccups.
Batch Scan to add several books without interruptions
Even with a barcode scanner, organizing books can be a daunting task when you first start out - a pile of books in front of you to scan, and the app takes you through screen after screen to get a single book added. Try our Batch Scan - pile up your books, take the scanner and go all guns blazing - bam! bam! bam! to scan books one after the other without any interruptions.
Search and find your books online
For times when you need to add books into your book catalog but don’t have them handy, you can use our book search. Search for titles or authors and tap on the results to add books to your book list. You can also shop for the book from the search results.
Find the next book you want to read
Use search when you’re hunting for something new to read - search, add, read book summaries and shop to get your next book. Go ahead and expand your home library!
Swiftly find books with Filters and Search
While adding a book to your book list, you can mark stuff like who you’ve lent the book to, whether you’ve read the book or not and you can even add it to your favorites. The next time you’re at a bookstore and you’re unsure of whether you have a book or not, use our search and filters to answer that real quick.
Keep your catalog safe with Backups
We know that your book collection is invaluable - and so should be your book catalog. Backup your book catalog into your phone and keep it safe when you need to format your phone, or when you uninstall apps. Restore the backup once you’re set.
Content that is clean and organized
We understand how much time you take to get your bookshelf organized. We have tried to apply the same meticulousness in how a book’s details are displayed - organized and clean. For books that have been looked up from Amazon, find the shop icon in the action bar of the book details page.
We care for the little details
• Contacts-like alphabet scrolling for fast scrolling through your book catalog
• ISBN search to find books when you have old books in your home library with barcodes that are unclear or tampered
• Beautiful and lucid usage hints to guide you through the app
• Books indexed alphabetically on the book’s title
• Library book search that searches within titles and author names
• Minimalistic material design to give you the best Android user experience
Category : Productivity
Reviews (27)
I love this app!! It has every thing I want in a book collection app! The ONLY problem I have is that there is no way to sync your library (like connecting to a Google account)! This one issue makes me not want to use the app. I had over 200 books in my collection but due to some phone problems I had to factory reset my phone. I tried to use the backup feature but when I went to restore my files it refused to upload my books, which was very frustrating. please please please add a syncing option!
Information Didn't Transfer onto New Phone. I spent hours adding all the titles in my classroom library for the information not to transfer over when I got a new phone. I'm fuming at all the time wasted and after emailing the creator, I've had no response. It could be great and agree with other reviewers that a checkout/checkin scanning option would be helpful.
Great interface, poor back-end implementation. To back up to another phone, find the backup (was /SDcard/PocketLibrary/backup/ for me). Compress (zip) the entire backup directory and transfer it to your new phone (I used Drive). On the new phone, create a single entry. Back it up so it creates the appropriate directory. Delete the new backup directory and replace it with your compressed backup folder from the old phone. Restore from backup in the program. Bit of a pain but it works.
It is simple and easy to add books by ISBN. I like the options to mark "Have/Haven't Read" or that it was lent out. However, I don't like that when I set it to sort by author, it sorts by the first letter of the author. (i.e. "Jane Austen" is under J.) To fix this, I would have to go into each entry and manually modify the author notation to "Lastname, Firstname", which is tedious. There are also no options for tags, categories/genres, or dewey.
Soooooo. I had this app. Absolutely loved it. I even told a bunch of my friends about it. However, my phone got ruined and I had to get a new one. I assumed that when I hit the backup button that it was backing it up to my SD card.I have no idea what it was being backed up to cause when I downloaded it again, hit restore, it said there was no books saved. So needless to say, I'm screwed. I own well over 600 books and I refuse to add them everytime I get a new phone.
Love the app and the ability to enter books using a barcode. Would love it if a check-in check-out feature was added. Also would be great to store the data on the SD card.
Loved the app until i needed to transfer to new phone, i had over 3,000 books in my library & because i couldnt get a response from developer ive lost it ALL. old phone wouldn't allow me to do backups or download new apps so there was no way for me to copy to new phone. I contacted developer over and over and over never got a response for help and now I've lost my entire Library because I had to reset my phone thinking that I could reinstall my library from the SD card but now it wont read card
App used to be good but no longer able to search online to add books. Moving to another app now, although the prospect of moving 492 books doesn't appeal!! No export facility.
Just downloaded this. How on earth does it link to Amazon?? cant for the life of me figure it out. Also the ISBN scanner ooens but the screen is black. i checked permissions and that all is ok. please someone help me. im using an android phone.
I tried to add a book by author, title, and ISBN and the ISBN was not found and the server was always busy when attempting to search for books online. You cannot add ebooks by ASIN, which is what most ebooks are listed under. Great concept for an app, but poor execution.
For the past 2 or 3 months I haven't been able to search for books online. it always say servers are busy. plz fix this.
The app was everything I wanted/needed until it wouldn't let me add anymore books. Will re-download if this issue is fixed.
Every time I scan a book they don't have it shuts down the app and its really frustrating.
Perfect way to have my Bookshelf on the go with me. Easy to key in information on the books as it has the Barcode scanner in it
I would give it a 5 star if they fixed it. I can't access it anymore. It keeps crashing.
Great features! Please add other databases though other than just Amazon like WorldCat, etc.
Looks great. Cover thumbnails are a bit too small on my tablet though.
would be a good app, but you scan the barcode and a different book comes up
Brilliant app simple and easy to use and it works! If only all apps were like this
Tried out few similar apps. User friendly then most. Please add 'genre' category
The only problem I have with this app is that the 'Find your book online' option does not work.
Server is always busy when you try to search
please add pages and read feature
Love it! Fun & easy!!
Nice app. pls add category option also.
I only scanned in one book any book after that in the app kicks me out
AMAZON search only, but it has almost all the features you would want for a book tracker app. This should include the option to link a personal account like Google or Facebook to have the data automatically backed up. If they need to add it as a payment option, they should do it. The app looks good, it's simple and has great features BUT if the phone gets stolen or permanently crashes, we'll miss all our data.