What's new in Booknizer 7.2

Improvements and new features in Booknizer 7.2

[!] Added extended filters for books and authors. Filters can be created from search parameters.

Booknizer includes several pre-defined filters, you can find them in the "Quick filter" menu. Using these filters, you can easily list, for example, all unread books from your library.

Booknizer 7.2 extends filtering capabilities. Now it is possible to create new filters with any desired sets of parameters and use them similar to quick filters.

An extended filter applied

Dropdown lists for extended filters can be found at the top of the "Books" and "Authors" tabs. Initially this list is empty. To add an extended filter, click the "..." button next to the list.

Extended filter settings

With the upper plus button you create a new filter, with the lower one you add rules to the currently selected filter. Rules (field and its values) can be adjusted directly in the list.

Click "Save" to save and apply the newly created filter.

If you search for books on the "Search" tab and realize that the set of parameters that you've just entered can be helpful in the future, click the "Create filter" button to create an extended filter using the specified parameters.

Create a filter from search

[+] Information about all books of any selected item can be downloaded on the "Collection" tab.

The "Collection" tab allow sorting books and authors in many ways. You can create your own sorting patterns in the "Customize collection" window. The results can be printed or exported using Reports.

Download information about the books

Booknizer 7.2 can download information for all books of any selected Collection item. This allows you easily updating information about a certain set of books.

[+] On the author's page, books are sorted by book series. Books that do not belong to any series are listed separately.

In the Breeze and Modern user interfaces of Booknizer 7.2, book series are listed separately from other books:

Book series in a bibliography

[+] Now you can save book covers, photos of authors and other images from the program.

All sorts of pictures that you see in the program can now be saved. Just click a picture to open it in the built-in image viewer and click the floppy button on the toolbar of the viewer:

Save book cover

Alternatively, open the "Pictures" tab of the "Edit info" window for a book / author, right-click a picture and use the "Save the picture" entry:

Saving pictures from the edit info window

[+] When adding audio books and e-books from files, you can easily select all highlighted files and folders instead of selecting each of them manually.

In Booknizer, you can add e-books and audio books from files using the corresponding entries of the "Add book" dialog. Previously, you could check or uncheck individual items (files and folders, including all nested folders), but it was impossible to select a group of items on the same level. Booknizer 7.2 offers a new feature: now a group of files / folders can be highlighted with usual controls (Shift + Click), and then all highlighted items can be checked.

Select highlighted files and folders

[+] It is now possible to create a set of format icons that will be displayed on the book page, depending on the format of the e-book.

If you added e-books and/or audio books from files or linked otherwise added books to files, there are links to the corresponding files on the book's page. You can play audio books or read e-books directly from Booknizer.

In Booknizer 7.2, the standard book icon can be replaced with icons of the corresponding formats.

Format icons

To create your own set of icons, open the folder where Booknizer is installed (typically C:\Program Files (x86)\Booknizer). Open the "Pictures" subfolder and find the "FormatIcons" subfolder inside it. If such folder does not exist, create it.

Now save icons of formats into this FormatIcons folder in the PNG format. The filename of an icon should be the name (or rather the filename extension) of the corresponding format. For example, an icon for the EPUB format should have the "epub.png" filename. Booknizer uses 32*32 icons.

Newly added icons will be used automatically.

[+] Added Orange user interface.

The Orange user interface is now available in Booknizer. You can switch to this interface on the "User interface" tab of the settings window.

Orange interface

[-] Fixed renaming book series.

When you changed the book series field for some book in previous versions of Booknizer, the new series was applied to all books of the series. Thus it was impossible to move an individual book to a different book series, removing it from the previously assigned series. This bug was fixed in Booknizer 7.2.

Edit book series

[-] Fixed reading some e-books in the EPUB format.

The built-in file scanner of Booknizer could not extract information about some e-book files in the EPUB format and failed to add such books to the list. This was fixed in Booknizer 7.2.

[-] Fixed saving book authors extracted from files, if downloading information was enabled and no author was downloaded from the selected internet source.

When you add books from files, Booknizer tries to extract as much information as possible. Additionally you can choose to download information from the internet.

Previously the program did not save authors, if no information about authors was found in the downloaded information. In this situation Booknizer 7.2 uses authors extracted from book files.

[-] Fixed other bugs.

There are other improvements and bug fixes in Booknizer 7.2. Do not hesitate to contact us using the support form or our forum, if you have any questions, suggestions, or want to report a bug.

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