Book Inventory Update

Remember these piles of "inventoried" books?

After my 4 day adventure of doing inventory of my counselor books several readers told me that there are some handy dandy websites/apps that allow you to scan in your books (thank you readers by the way).   These book inventory websites/apps will categorize/organize your books for you online.

Here are a few to consider:

-Classroom Book Source
-All My Books
-Book Retriever (App $.99)
-Book Crawler (App $1.99)

I bought the Book Crawler app from a recommendation from blogger buddy Danielle from the School Counselor Blog and found it quite easy & helpful to use.

Book Crawler App

Here's a few screenshots of the app and how to use it: 

You can add books manually, from Google Books or scan them to your inventory.

If you have to enter your book info manually.

Using the scanner feature, (this is actually a pic of my couch).  The scanner picks up so quickly, I couldn't take a screen shot fast enough, so I had to go with this (notice the book is laying in the background). 

Once the book's scanned, the info comes up!

So what if you scan in a book and the cover doesn't appear?

You can take a picture of the book cover with the camera on your iPad/iPhone & add it to the inventory!

The picture of the book updates and appears in your library.

You can even email your book list!

I like this app and am excited to use it to keep track of my counselor books.   The inventory will have to be on hold until August (hey this is summer & I have other counselor projects to work on) but will finish for sure.  I do think that this next round of "inventory" will go easier, since I've gone through the books and grouped them. 

Having an inventory of books is going to be great.  I certainly can't tell you all the books I have off the top of my head but this app sure will help.  During the ASCA conference I was looking at books in the exhibit hall and realized by checking my Google Docs book inventory on my iPad that I actually had a few of the books already in my collection.  So all that work was NOT done in vain!  Having the inventory already saved me from buying books that I already had.  I am liking this concept more and more!

How would you benefit from having a counselor book inventory?