Organize your books, movies, music and more in an efficient way
When you start having so many books, DVDs, music CDs and other stuff that you can hardly remember their titles, you know it's time to start organizing your media collection.
A good way to do it is Libra. This full featured cataloging tool enables you to create a complete database with all your books, movies, music records and videogames, ll in one place, all perfectly organized.
Libra shows the content of your database on its interface, which resembles a wooden shelf – not a very nice design, to my taste. Each item in the database has a highly-detailed entry, including title, description, images and extra information that varies depending on the type of item.
The best feature in Libra is undoubtedly the tool to add new items. All you have to do is enter any keyword in the search field and Libra will search Amazon's database with it. If the book, movie, CD or videogame you were looking for is among the results, just click on it and it will automatically be added to your database. No writing at all! Oddly enough, Libra only uses Amazon websites and doesn't let you add any others to the list.
Libra also includes some extra features such as a loan manager, a contacts list, a tool to import databases from other apps or other formats, and support to export to HTML, CSV and XLS.
Libra is a full-featured cataloger with which you can easily organize your collection of books, movies, music and videogames.
User reviews about Libra
by Anonymous
Useless and Outdated..
The website is no longer active and you can not add through the database, only manually or by importing a previous collection. Useless.
Pros:
the concept
Cons:
needs to work. if it did work, use it to link to your digital files that your cataloging. More
by Anonymous
Not worth the download.
The website they use is not renewed so it will not add information so unless you just want a database that you could have with and Office program it is not worth the free download More
by Anonymous
Did not work.
I downloaded this program but every time i tried to add anything it said it could not find it. If anyone can help i would appreciate it. More
by Anonymous
Using with Windows 7.
Libra does work with Windows 7 but it does have an minor a problem. You have to click on it several times (up to 10 clicks) before it will open ones database for entry. I also found you needed to turn off the advertisement that sits behind the main screen too.
It is a very good little program and perhaps the author could find time to update it, so that it works correctly with both Windows 7 and the future Windows 8.
Pros:
Very easy to use.
Cons:
Minor problem when used with Windows 7, it is difficult to input data. More
by Anonymous
Love this program.
I have been looking for weeks for this program. I had it on my XP system and loved it.
Unfortunately I now have a Win 7 OS Please provide one for Win7... More
by Anonymous
Great, but doesn't work with Win 7.
I used it with Win XP. I love it. I have so much to keep organized and this software really helps a lot. Windows 7 will allow me to install and even read my old data base, but it won't let me add new books & items to my library. I am so very disappointed. I've only been able to find a few other programs to do this but they are nothing that a regular MS Access database can't track. I like having the Libra interface and I like the fact that it can look up ISBN or UPC codes and import the cover pics for me. Now I'll have to scan every cover & import into a database. This can create weeks of extra work for anyone who is just starting out on the task of computerizing their library. More