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 Find answers in the manual 6 Part III Getting started 10 1 Getting Started................................................................................................................................... - Your first 10 clicks 11 2 Getting Started................................................................................................................................... - Adding your first book 13 3 Getting Started................................................................................................................................... - Quick Guide 14 4 Getting Started................................................................................................................................... - Useful and powerful tips 17 Part IV Buying Book Collector 19 Part V Support 22 Part VI Common Tasks 22 1 Adding Books................................................................................................................................... Automatically - Using the queue 24 2 Editing books................................................................................................................................... 25 3 Browsing your................................................................................................................................... database 29 4 Finding a book................................................................................................................................... in your database 32 5 Printing ................................................................................................................................... 33 Part VII Advanced Tasks 35 1 Adding books................................................................................................................................... using barcodes 38 2 Adding books................................................................................................................................... manually 38 3 Adding eBooks................................................................................................................................... and audio books 40 4 Adding contents................................................................................................................................... of a book 40 5 Editing multiple................................................................................................................................... books 42 6 Automatically................................................................................................................................... updating books 44 7 Adding images................................................................................................................................... manually 45 8 Searching with................................................................................................................................... a filter 46 9 Searching with................................................................................................................................... wildcards 49 10 Managing lookup................................................................................................................................... lists 49 11 Loaning books................................................................................................................................... 52 12 Viewing collection................................................................................................................................... statistics 54 13 Customizing................................................................................................................................... Book Collector 55 14 Updating file................................................................................................................................... links 59 15 Repairing thumbnails................................................................................................................................... 60 © 2008 Bitz & Pixelz BV Contents 3 16 Importing books................................................................................................................................... 61 17 Exporting to................................................................................................................................... text format 63 18 Exporting to................................................................................................................................... HTML 64 19 Exporting to................................................................................................................................... PDA, iPod and XML 66 20 Updating Book................................................................................................................................... Collector 69 21 Transfering ...................................................................................................................................data to a new computer 71 22 Transfering ...................................................................................................................................data to a Mac 72 23 Making backups................................................................................................................................... of your data 73 Part VIII Reference 76 1 Menus ................................................................................................................................... 77 File menu .......................................................................................................................................................... 78 Edit menu .......................................................................................................................................................... 79 Search menu .......................................................................................................................................................... 80 View menu .......................................................................................................................................................... 80 Loans menu .......................................................................................................................................................... 80 Tools menu .......................................................................................................................................................... 81 Buy menu .......................................................................................................................................................... 81 Help menu .......................................................................................................................................................... 82 2 Screens ................................................................................................................................... 82 Main screen .......................................................................................................................................................... 84 Add Books Automatically.......................................................................................................................................................... screen 85 Edit Book screen.......................................................................................................................................................... 88 Edit Story/Article/Chapter.......................................................................................................................................................... screen 91 Link Books screen.......................................................................................................................................................... 92 Print screen .......................................................................................................................................................... 95 Filter screen .......................................................................................................................................................... 98 Column field.......................................................................................................................................................... selection screen 102 Sort field selection.......................................................................................................................................................... screen 104 Folder field selection.......................................................................................................................................................... screen 106 Manage Loans.......................................................................................................................................................... screen 108 Field Defaults.......................................................................................................................................................... screen 110 Statistics screen.......................................................................................................................................................... 111 Text export screen.........................................................................................................................................................