BookLover for iPhone helps you organize your to read books
filed in Ecosystem iOS on Jul.02, 2010
A review of BookLover for iPhone application to increase reading productivity
For all reading fanatics out there, ever thought of having an application that consolidates
- All your reading thoughts
- All the books that you have read before
- All that you have read
- Easy sharing with all your friends
BookLover is that application. As an application to do that, I find that it has a major limitation:
Lack of cloud storage
By this I mean storing your have read, to read and will read list in some for of web applications where your account is maintained.
Why is it important for an app like this? For one thing, read is an age old activity and chances are people have a lot of books on paper back that they have read before.
As a read I want one service not just an application that enables me to keep track of it. I would have expected the BookLover iPhone app to act as a front end for it.
Other than that, it is quite an innovative application:
Finding a cover art for your book
If you are able to get online, BookLover will be able to find a cover art for your book.
I have tested it on 3 books and its been darn successful:
Finding related book titles
Booklover will also help you hunt down books that are related. I tried this on a Forgotten Realm title called Shadowstorm and it was able to bring up other book titles from similar authors:
Conclusion
It’s a small price to pay to ensure that you have an application that keeps track of your books.
The feature worth paying money for is the lookup of cover art via book title search.
Other than that it is fairly straight forward database storage.
I still feel you can keep track of this in other free options, particularly Evernote on the iPhone.
