Bookpedia features

[me_luvy]

Hello! I saw that there was someone else requesting a 'volume in series' field, and I wanted to add that this would indeed be very useful—particularly if the field in question were to be similar to the iTunes 'track [__] of [__]' fields, which displays '1 of 15' in a single column, or '1' if you don't add the number of tracks, and nothing if you add only the number of tracks. (Using a custom field for series volume makes several books show up as 'duplicates,' which clutters the 'show duplicates' view, thus rendering it pretty much useless.)

It would also be great if Bookpedia were to have 'original title' and 'language' fields; I use custom fields for both at the moment, but the 'original title' one completely overstretches my 'statistics' view (I haven't seen any way to choose which fields show up in the statistics—but maybe I'm missing something). Also, about statistics, it would be brilliant if comma-separated authors were to be considered individually in the statistics view (e.g. a book by "Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman" would add to the total count of both Pratchett and Gaiman).

Anyhow, thanks for the terrific software! I'm a happy and very satisfied user of two pedias—just thought I'd make these suggestions

[Conor]

Thank you for the feedback, especially when it's so detailed. It helps us know how you currently use the program and how it can be improved. We are storing new fields to be added until a big update to do them together as it requires changing the database structure, in Leopard this is simpler as CoreData takes care of the versioning but we still support Tiger and have to do the versioning ourselves. We also have plans to overhaul the statistics to make them more flexible so that users can customize them to fit their needs, include only the fields they are interested, etc. Making it flexible really means re-writing the statistics from the ground up so this one will also take a while.