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Alfa Ebooks Manager vs Readerware

December 30, 2025 | Author: Maria Lin
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Alfa Ebooks Manager
Powerful, yet beautiful and easy-to-use book organizer. Suitable for book lovers, collectors, students, teachers, schools and business libraries. Allows to organize e-books and printed books in a single digital library. Includes a built-in reader, audiobook player, format converter, metadata editor and a web server for local network access. Enables to quickly find books, including by full-text search. It's highly customizable - you can add custom fields, build a genre tree, add tags. Integrates with Amazon, Google Books and other websites to update book metadata. You can even view books in 3D.
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Readerware
Library management program for Windows/Mac/Linux with mobile apps for iOS and Android. It allows to enter a list of ISBNs, LCCNs or scanned barcodes, then automatically searches the internet and downloads book information, including cover images. The program can combine information from multiple websites to create the most comprehensive database. The built-in search allows to filter books by Author, Title, ISBN and Category. Search results are displayed in an easy-to-read, customizable table, tree or thumbnail view. You can easily manage your database, categorize your collection, assign ratings and add custom database fields. Readerware includes built-in book lending tracker to register book issues and returns, search and print list of books currently on loan and expired. The program discontinued.
Alfa Ebooks Manager vs Readerware in our news:

2023. Ebook organizer Readerware has updated it's mobile app



A new version of library management appReaderware Mobile 4.31 has been released for Android, iPhone and iPad. The developers have completely rewritten Readerware Mobile Sync to comply with new app store policies. Therefore, Readerware Mobile 4.31 is designed to sync exclusively with Readerware 4.31 so syncing with Readerware 3 is no longer supported. To address compatibility issues caused by changes to the Android file system and security, Readerware Mobile now runs seamlessly on Android 11 and later. Additionally, the updated version of Readerware Mobile includes support for new screen resolutions and image sizes.


2014. Alfa Ebooks Manager 5 adds Web Server, Audio Palyer, LoC integration



Alfa.NetSoft has released the new version of the popular ebook library organizer Alfa Ebooks Manager 5. The main new feature is OPDS Web Server that allows to browse, search, view and download your books via LAN or Wi-Fi from any computer or mobile device. You can use a browser or one of ereading apps that support OPDS standard. Besides, the program now supports linking multiple files per book, editing metadata for PDF, EPUB, FB2, MOBI, AZW ebooks. Audiobook lovers will be pleased to see inbuilt audioplayer and 3D audiobook models. Largest US book library Library of Congress now can be used to update book data. The book card in Alfa now contains 3 fields dedicated to LoC. Alfa's interface was already translated to 17 languages (Create covers from any ebook page (PDF, DJVU), Retrieve ToC from file, New version autocheck, New interface languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Czech, Turkish, Greek, Polish, Romanian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Arabic and Farsi). BTW they provide 50% discount #rightnow.

Author: Maria Lin
Maria Lin, is a seasoned content writer who has contributed to numerous tech portals, including Mashable and bookrunch, as a guest author. She holds a Master's degree in Journalism from the University of California, where her research predominantly concentrated on mobile apps, software, AI and cloud services. With a deep passion for reading, Maria is particularly drawn to the intersection of technology and books, making book tech a subject of great interest to her. During her leisure time, she indulges in her love for cooking and finds solace in a good night's sleep. You can contact Maria Lin via email maria@bookrunch.com