BookLover iPhone App Gets Updated With Barcode Scanning
Electric Pocket has released a major update to its BookLover app. The new edition offers barcode scanning, to make it faster and simpler to enter your favorite books into the app, and sorting by author and title. This new version should be a big hit among anybody who loves books and telling all their friends about the ones they have read or want to read.
Quickly scan your most-loved books into BookLover to readily remember them, and have a safe place to jot down the books you want to read… and easily share them with your friends by Facebook or email.
Got a book or two on the go? Add it to BookLover’s "Reading" shelf and quickly and easily take notes as you go, bookmark your current page and share what you’re reading with your book loving friends.
What’s New
Added scanner support for iOS4 (under "thumb" button on main screen). Added sort by title and sort by author (under "thumb" button on main screen). Improved the cover art and bibliography results, added a larger preview of the book on the edit screen, added a field for ISBN. Improved drag and drop of books on shelves. Newly downloaded covers display in hi-res on retina screens.
Although this app is only for iPhone, Electric Pocket are working on a Universal iPad version which should be out soon.
Price: $0.99/Download
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: joanne@theappwhisperer.com
