BookJournal

A digital book journal.

Features

• Keep track of all of your books: the books you have read, are reading and would like to read
• Show reading statistics including how many books and pages you have read in a given year
• Automatically look up information about a book by entering its IBAN
• See other books by the same author(s)
• Categorize your books
• Search through your books
• Rate the books you have read and save your commentary
• Add notes to your books
• Tag your books for better searching
• Light and dark mode
• Works on multiple platforms (Windows, macOS and Linux)

System Requirements

BookJournal runs on the following platforms:

• Windows
• macOS
• Linux

Build Requirements

BookJournal runs on the Electron platform and can therefore be developed and built on any platform supported by Electron. The only requirement is Node >= 12.

Release Notes

1.1.3

• Update to Electron 12
• Security fixes
• Resize the app icon slightly to match macOS Big Sur's better

1.1.2

• Fix a white flash that occurred when loading the application in dark mode

1.1.1

• Fix a critical bug that prevented the app from starting when no database exists
• Fix a bug that prevented the date picker from working

1.1.0

• Updated Electron and other dependencies
• Security updates
• Converted to TypeScript for better stability
• Lots of bug fixes
• New icon to fit with macOS Big Sur
• Visual tweaks

1.0.0

• Updated the app icon
• Updated the dependencies
• Small tweaks and polishing touches

0.7.1

• Fixed a bug where categories couldn't be deleted
• Fixed a bug where clicking on buttons in the dialog boxes wasn't producing any results
• Fixed a bug where adding a bookcover was no longer possible

0.7.0

• Added Submit Feedback button to the Help menu
• Added Editor field
• Added books to a wishlist
• Feature to set the book's color to the primary color of the bookcover
• Redesigned book form to make it simpler and more fun to use
• Redesigned book reading statuses to have more options and to make it easier to understand
• Fixed a bug where the window preferences weren't saved when closing the window
• Update to Electron 7
• New application icon

0.6.0

• Support for macOS dark mode
• Fix a bug where "Invalid Date" is shown if no Date Read is given in the book list
• Fix a bug where the categories no longer work in the sidebar and the search doesn't work
• Fix a bug where the "books by author" no longer works
• Update to Electron 6
• "Currently Reading"
• Book format field
• Notes field
• Add "Books Read" to the sidebar
• Add automatic testing and building with Travis CI
• Automatic backups of the database on app launch (launch a background process)

0.5.0

• Fix bug where weird years show up in the statistics even though they don't exist in the database
• Fix bug where multiple modals open after a modal has been closed by clicking on the background
• Fix bug where bookcovers are not automatically added after fetching book info from Google Books
• Fix horizontal scrollbar in modals and the bookform column
• Fix bug in books by author modal where it says "Read on Invalid Date"
• Frontend refinements
  • Modals that can be closed by clicking on the background behind them
  • Animations
  • Books by Author and Preferences modals have "titlebars" that don't scroll away
  • New datepicker
• Update to Electron 3

0.4.0

• If NODE_ENV exists and === 'development', use developer DB
• Fix crash when changing book colors (change color, then change again using the same color inspector window)
• Fix bug where bookcovers are not automatically added after fetching book info from Google Books
• Fix bug where 16/09/1887 is sometimes shown in the date started field
• Fix bug where there is an error when no database exists instead of just creating one
• Sort books by date added, date started and date updated
• If there are no books read, the statics page should say that instead of just "spinning" the whole time
• Popup with other works by an author
  • Indication of read or not read
  • Checkbox in preferences to turn it on or off
• Fix Windows-specific bugs

0.3.0

• Change location of the database and bookcovers
  • Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/BookJournal
  • Linux: leave at ~/.bookjournal
  • Windows: C:\Users\{User}\AppData\Roaming\Alex Seifert\BookJournal
• Add database migration strategy for seemless schema updates
• Reading statistics
• "Future Reading" -> "Not Read Yet"

0.2.0

• Improve initial loading time
• Preferences: light/dark theme, automatically fetch book information from Google Books (on/off), update automatically (on/off)
• Search
• Sort books by field in the book form

0.1.0

• Add books
• Organize them in categories
• Update mechanism
• Dark and light themes
• Automatically fetch book information based on the ISBN - https://developers.google.com/books/docs/v1/using

Icons

From https://glyph.smarticons.co and https://material.io/tools/icons/?style=sharp

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Alex Seifert - https://www.alexseifert.com