Collectorz.com Book Collector Help Manual © 2008 Bitz & Pixelz BV 2 Collectorz.com Book Collector Help Manual Table of Contents Foreword 0 Part I Introduction 5 Part II Getting Started 5 Part III Support 9 Part IV Buying Book Collector 9 Part V Common Tasks 11 1 Adding Books................................................................................................................................... Automatically - Wizard 11 2 Editing books................................................................................................................................... 15 3 Browsing................................................................................................................................... your database 17 4 Finding a................................................................................................................................... book in your database 20 5 Printing ................................................................................................................................... 22 Part VI Advanced Tasks 23 1 Adding Books................................................................................................................................... Automatically - Advanced Mode 24 2 Editing multiple................................................................................................................................... books 26 3 Searching................................................................................................................................... with a filter 28 4 Managing................................................................................................................................... lookup lists 29 5 Adding books................................................................................................................................... using barcodes 31 6 Adding contents................................................................................................................................... of a book 32 7 Loaning ...................................................................................................................................books 34 8 Making backups................................................................................................................................... of your data 36 9 Customizing................................................................................................................................... the software 37 10 Automatically................................................................................................................................... updating books 37 11 Updating................................................................................................................................... the software 40 12 Viewing ...................................................................................................................................Ebooks, and listening to Audio books 40 13 Importing................................................................................................................................... books 42 14 Exporting................................................................................................................................... to HTML 44 15 Exporting................................................................................................................................... to text format 46 16 Exporting................................................................................................................................... to XML and iPod 48 17 Viewing ...................................................................................................................................collection statistics 49 18 Adding images................................................................................................................................... manually 50 19 Transfering................................................................................................................................... data to a Mac (from Windows) 52 20 Transfering................................................................................................................................... data to a new computer 52 © 2008 Bitz & Pixelz BV Contents 3 21 Updating................................................................................................................................... file links 53 22 Changing................................................................................................................................... field names 54 23 Adding eBooks................................................................................................................................... and audio books 55 Part VII Reference 55 1 Menus ................................................................................................................................... 55 Book Collector .......................................................................................................................................................... 55 File menu .......................................................................................................................................................... 55 Edit menu .......................................................................................................................................................... 56 Search menu .......................................................................................................................................................... 57 View menu .......................................................................................................................................................... 57 Loans menu .......................................................................................................................................................... 58 Buy menu .......................................................................................................................................................... 58 Tools menu .......................................................................................................................................................... 58 Help menu .......................................................................................................................................................... 59 2 Screens ................................................................................................................................... 59 Main screen .......................................................................................................................................................... 59 Add Books Automatically.......................................................................................................................................................... Advanced screen 61 Edit Book screen .......................................................................................................................................................... 63 Edit Story/Article/Chapter.......................................................................................................................................................... screen 65 Print screen .......................................................................................................................................................... 66 Filter screen .......................................................................................................................................................... 69 Column field selection.......................................................................................................................................................... screen 71 Sort field selection.......................................................................................................................................................... screen 72 Folder field selection.......................................................................................................................................................... screen 73 HTML export screen.......................................................................................................................................................... 74 Text export screen.......................................................................................................................................................... 76 Manage Loans screen.......................................................................................................................................................... 78 Field Defaults screen.......................................................................................................................................................... 79 Statistics screen .......................................................................................................................................................... 80 Preferences screen.......................................................................................................................................................... 82 Search Settings screen.......................................................................................................................................................... 85 3 Hints for..................................................................................................................................