Searching, Filtering and Views &app; includes powerful tools for searching and filtering and books display. You can use these tools to display only books by a certain author or publisher, only those you rate highly or those with additional notes. &app; also contains both Icon and List views, and can directly link to online information providers to display more detailed information.
Icon and List Views Like the Nautilus file manager, &app; has both Icon and List views. The Icon view shows the cover and title for every book in your library, while the List view shows more detailed information (as defined in the preferences), with one book per line. To switch between Icon and List views, either use the View as... button in the top right of the main window, or ViewView As List / View as Icons in the main menu and right-click menu. The icons can be arranged in order of Title, Author, Publishing, Binding or Rating, and you can reverse this order. To change the order of the books in the Icon view, choose ViewArrange Icons from the main menu or Arrange Icons from the right-click menu. To change the order of the books in the List view, click on the appropriate column header.
The list view, showing books sorted in reverse by author name The list view, showing books sorted by author name
Searching or filtering the view It is very easy to search for a particular book, or to limit the number of books displayed. To search for a specific title, just enter its name in the entry field on the toolbar. Use the Title contains drop-down menu to choose between searching for Titles, Authors, ISBNs, Publishers or Notes.
The list view, showing books only those books whose author name contains 'banks' The list view, searching for books by 'banks'
From the keyboard, you can move to the search field by pressing Ctrl-F. You can clear the search by pressing Ctrl-Alt-B.
Finding out more information about your books online If you want to find out more information about your book, you can use &app; to open the web page of one of the online information providers and be taken directly to the relevant book. Simply select the book you wish to know more about, right-click on it, and from the menu Display Online Information, choose from either Amadeus Buch or Internet Bookshop Italia. Not every online information source has a complete list of books and you may have to try several different providers to find the information you want.