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 is a British photography journalist, editor, curator, and the founder of *TheAppWhisperer.com*, one of the world’s leading platforms dedicated to mobile photography and art. Since its launch in 2009, TheAppWhisperer has become an international hub for artists of all levels to discover, learn, exhibit, and engage with contemporary photographic practice.Built on principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and artistic excellence, Joanne has spent almost two decades championing mobile photography as a serious artistic medium. Through interviews, critical essays, exhibitions, competitions, and education, she has helped shape and document the evolution of mobile art on a global scale.Her work has taken her internationally, lecturing on photography and mobile art at institutions and events including the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, alongside appearances in the UK and Europe. She has served as a juror for international photography and mobile art awards across Portugal, Canada, the United States, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.Joanne is also the founder of *TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com*, one of the first online galleries dedicated exclusively to collectible mobile art, connecting artists with collectors across Europe, the United States, and Asia.Before founding TheAppWhisperer, Joanne worked extensively in print journalism and photographic publishing, including roles at a paparazzi photo agency and as deputy editor of a leading photography magazine. Her freelance journalism, criticism, and commentary have been published widely in both the UK and the US, with bylines in *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, *The Guardian*, *Popular Photography*, *NikonPro*, *DPReview*, *Which?*, *Vogue Italia*, *LensCulture*, the *BBC*, and more recently, the *Financial Times*, where her published letters on photography continue to contribute to wider conversations around the medium.Alongside her editorial and curatorial work, Joanne’s own photographic practice has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, South Korea, and the United States. Her work increasingly explores themes of grief, loss, death, memory, and the body.Her current research interests centre on grief, death, and poverty, with forthcoming postgraduate study leading towards doctoral research in these areas.Joanne is currently developing new long-form writing and photographic projects and is available for commissions, editorial projects, speaking engagements, and collaborations.Contact: joannetheappwhisperer@gmail.com)
