Bookends is a Mac program designed for students and professionals who wish to manage bibliographies, literature research materials, etc. The application comes with an intuitive interface, gives you access to an effective search utility, and lets you print the stored records directly from its interface.
This utility also comes in handy to people who wish to easily and quickly create book inventories on their Macs. By working with this application you can keep track of the volumes you acquired so far, manage a list containing the books you wish to buy sometime in the future, etc.
Furthermore, its efficient search tool provides you with a quick and simple way to find the missing information you need for completing your study or bibliography. The program searches book info on dozens of specialized websites and provides you with small previews for the found volumes.
You can share the stored records via email directly from the app's interface, import scanned documents, and sync your book inventory across your mobile phone. In addition, you can select a folder which will be monitored at all times. Whenever you copy a new document in the selected directory, the application automatically imports the file into its records.
All in all, Bookends proves to be a reliable solution for inventorying your book collection and research materials. The app offers you many useful features, is simple to use, and comes with a reasonable price.
v12.7 [Apr 26, 2016]
- The new preference file, called Bookends Preferences and stored in the ~/Library/Application Support/Bookends folder, is much smaller than the old, will not grow in size over time, and is resistant to corruption. Existing preferences as far back as Bookends version 11.0 will be converted to the new schema automatically. If you are upgrading from Bookends 10.x or earlier, preference settings will be reset to the defaults.
- Use the Action pop-up menu under the groups pane or click on the group list header to search for a specific group. If a match is found Bookends will select that group and scroll to it. If you type in only a partial name, Bookends will search for a group that begins with those letters and select the first one it finds. You can't search for the three mandatory groups: All, Hits, and Attachments.
- Improved single column reference list. Bookends remembers the field the list is sorted by when you click on the column header to toggle between descending and ascending sorts. Cosmetic changes.
- Improved drag visual feedback. The textual content in the drag of items in the reference list will be displayed (e.g. either the temporary citation or, if the Option key is held down, the formatted reference). The pdf proxy icon will be displayed when it is dragged. Previously, only the rectangular outlines of these items were displayed.
- Improvements to OpenURL. Bookends now supports arguments that specify the DOI or PMID: rft_id=info:doi/ and rft_id=info:pmid/, respectively.
- Fixed a bug in Autofill From Internet that uses the ISBN where an editor's name was missed. Fixed a bug where some in-text citations could be missed when scanning a NWP document that as pictures. Fixed several bugs in formatting that affected sorting and numbering of references in a bibliography. Fixed a bug that prevented an online search from being performed if you selected the terms from the search history pop-up menu while the search button was disabled. Fixed an issue that caused an error to be thrown when scanning with certain formats. Fixed a bug that could cause an error when loading preferences. Fixed a bug in the default field settings for the Newspaper Type. Fixed a bug that could cause edited format settings to be saved to the wrong Type if the Type pop-up was used before the information had been saved.
