Still ISO good library management software.

[nonethefewer]

I sort of want a cross between LibraryThing and any given ILS software.

LT does a good job, for the most part, at what it does. But I want more than it has to offer, which is unfortunate.

What I want, thus far:

Customisable fields: author, title, multiple editors, that sort of thing.

Proper tagging. DW's tag box, for an example, would be perfectly fine.

Ability to check in/out books, for when we lend books out to folk.

Proper inventory management. When we move, I want to make sure that, for example, all the Star Trek books are present and accounted for.

Ability to export any and every field that is part of the book. This includes, for example, the series a book is a part of.

A decent fucking phone app or mobile view.

Multi-user capabilities. This can't be a single-computer application that's held on one person's laptop, because that sort of defeats the purpose.

Ability to add custom fields for other-type tracking. For example, I want all SF/F to have a link to the matching ISFDB.org entry.

LT allows me to customise various fields. I'm trying out Bookpedia for the Mac; it has a lot more of what I want. But what keeps being missed is a proper fucking phone app or mobile view.

Business needs:

Knowing what books we already have while out and about. Rose brings home a lot of books from their job; it's essential to have this information. This goes triple for shopping, when one might not be in front of a computer.

Knowing what books we have in general. I want to know that I have all my Star Trek books. I don't want to know this by exporting LT's limited list of information, opening it in Excel, and making up an inventory system there.

Knowing what books are on the premises. Basically: "This book isn't physically present, but we do own it, and Bob Humperdinck currently has it."

Shiny statistics okay that's a want and not a need, what of it.

I dearly wish Bookpedia had a mobile-type thing; that would make my entire week.