German Books website relaunched

We have relaunched the German Books website. It is now clearer to understand. More information for users and for developers. New support options. And above all: you are now able to re-contact the Books Translation Management by using the following form http://books.aetherial.net/de/?page_id=61#contact. You may also use this form to get support in German or French language.

Please, help us to improve Books and to let us know what users expect from this software. We also need translators, still.

Thanks to all of you,
Enrico

Posted by Enrico Richter on November 8th, 2008 | Comments Off

The Comic Book DB plugin is back!

As a comic book geek, I’m exercising my executive powers to declare that the Comic Book DB Quickfill plugin is back and working, thanks to Jeff Cousens. To download and install version 2.0 of the plugin, please visit the Plugin Manager.

Please post any bug reports in the comments below.

Posted by Chris Karr on October 8th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Google Books Quickfill plugin

Stefano Falda of BabiSoft has contributed a new Quickfill plugin to Books. Stefano’s Google Books plugin provides an alternative to Amazon as a location to obtain both book information and cover images.

The plugin is available via the Plugin Manager (Window: Plugin Manager).

Please post any problems or issues in the comments below.

Posted by Chris Karr on October 4th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Books 3.2.2

Books 3.2.2 is now available.

This update fixes the bugs in the Quickfill system.

As always, post any comments or bug reports in the comments below or send an e-mail to books@aetherial.net.

Posted by Chris Karr on October 4th, 2008 | 10 Comments »

Books problems? Check that your QuickTime is up to date

I’ve been getting some reports about Books not starting on 10.4.11 systems. If you’re experiencing these problems, please check that your QuickTime is completely up to date. If you’re running an sufficiently old version of Quicktime, Books will not start.

Posted by Chris Karr on September 30th, 2008 | Comments Off

Books 3.2.1

Books 3.2.1 is now available.

This update fixes the crashing Quickfill bug on 10.4 systems.

As always, post any comments or bug reports in the comments below or send an e-mail to books@aetherial.net.

Posted by Chris Karr on September 19th, 2008 | 9 Comments »

Experiencing crashes on Quickfill on 10.4?

If so, please give this test version a try:

http://books.aetherial.net/downloads/Books.zip

If that fixes the problem, please let me know in the comments so I can begin to package it as 3.2.1.

Posted by Chris Karr on September 18th, 2008 | 9 Comments »

BabiBooks Quickfill plugin for Italian users

In addition to 3.2.0, I’ve also been working with Stefano Falda to create a Quickfill plugin for Italian users that works better than the SBN plugin. It’s available from the Plugin Manager as “BabiBooks”, so please give it a try. If it works well for you, please thank Stefano by visiting his BabiSoft website. He put a lot of hard work into this plugin and deserves all the credit.

Posted by Chris Karr on September 18th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Books 3.2.0

Books 3.2.0 is now available.

This update includes a variety of bugfixes, including some in the smart list and quickfill features.

This update includes support for all of the following languages:

Brazilian Portuguese (Matheus Lamberti di Abreu, Marcela Katzin)
Danish (Preben Nielson)
Dutch (Kees Beerepoot, Marjan van de Pol, Rudi Schmit)
Estonian (Kristi Laur)
Finnish (Timo Nevalainen)
German, French (Enrico Richter)
Hungarian (Dragon Zoltán)
Italian (Gabriele Callari, Andrea Bortolameazzi)
Japanese (Ryosuke Iida)
Polish (Piotr Chyliński)
Romanian (Ciprian-Dan Chirila)
Spanish (José Luís Pajares Sánchez-Mayoral, Marcela Katzin)

The translators are listed in parentheses, so feel free to thank them for their hard work. Enrico Richter continues to coordinate the translation effort and deserves special recognition.

As always, post any comments or bug reports in the comments below or send an e-mail to books@aetherial.net.

Posted by Chris Karr on September 18th, 2008 | 4 Comments »

How to report bugs

I ran across Steven Frank’s recommendations for submitting bug reports a couple of days ago.

Please check it out if you’re planning on submitting bugs for Books. It’ll help me resolve issues and get fixes back to you much more quickly.

Posted by Chris Karr on September 8th, 2008 | 2 Comments »