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Ordasoft-team just have done a overwhelmingliy great extension. It is just the best extension out there. I have not seen any other..
great extension.. great support..
thank you

Installed Booklibrary Pro to manage a library for our guild. As many members do have a lot of books, it is now possible to manage a full inventory and lend requests of those books, all without being a software nerd. Very good and fast support

Excellent component to handle a library.
Complete and easy to use. Good import/export tools. Very good fetching tool from Amazon to import books data.
AMAZING technical support. I had a problem of malfunction of the component on my site and the support solved it quickly.
Very recommended!

I am still learning the component, but so far the support has been top-notch. Because of this, I will purchase the commercial version.

The stumble I had with the component was that I wanted to use it not to sell books through Amazon, but to simply use it to catalog business books where I work so employees may check them out. So I deleted the pre-filled Amazon tag info from the settings fields. If you leave the Amazon fields blank, the component will no longer fetch information (book cover, info, etc) from Amazon. It would be nice for an error message or some warning that those fields need to be filled.

Once my question was answered, the component worked beautifully!

I have used both Booklibrary basic, and the commercial, Booklibrary Pro version. The backend, book administration, is easy to configure and maintain. And, the frontend template has a very professional look. I'm very fussy about look and feel, but only needed to make some very minor css adjustments.
The support by Ordasoft is outstanding. I needed to achieve a very particular look for the front-end book slideshow module, and Ordasoft team worked hard to accommodate me (with php and javascript adjustments).
I've used dozens of Joomla extensions, and this is one of the best - both in terms of quality and support.

After using BookLibrary without problems, I had a system error and technical support solved it quickly and efficiently.

This book-module is just perfect for a heavy-load (regarding the book-extensions) user like me.

I have testes a bunch of Book-Extensions in the past years. I am experienced in Amazon-Web-Services-Things for allmost 6 years now.

Andrew and the Ordasoft-team just have done a overwhelmingliy great extension. It is just the best extension out there. I have not seen any other
that can compete.

It is very easy to install and there are many features to make it easy for any one to custom it without a single problem.
I installed it on my joomla 2.5.4 in just seconds.

What is great is that it supports also CURL which makes it a very very secure web-application.

The Support is very very good and makes me happy - i am glad that i found this great extension.
Andrew -the developer just answers very very quick and gives the word supppot a new meaning - he provides top-notch support.

To sume it up: i love this app from the bottom of my heart and i am very very happy that i found this superb extension.

@ the developer: keep up the superb work - it rocks!!!
You have friends all over the globe! Greetings

This is an excellent product.
Words can not describe how amazing this developer is.
Thank you!!!

This extension works fine for me, but it is a little frustrating as a few things really slow me down when adding books.

On the whole I like the ext. Although there was no manual to be found, it was intuitive and I could begin adding books in a matter of minutes. The library is formatted ok and the front-end functionality works fine too.

My only quibbles are at the backend, trying to input books. I'm fetching data from amazon.co.uk, and it's not displayed correctly, e.g. sometimes the publisher is wrong, or date of publishing is wrong, or price is wrong. I gather though that these mistakes come from Amazon's end so no fault of the extension, but something to bear in mind when you have to manually alter every book you enter.

Secondly, when the price is fetched, I seem to sometimes get a marketplace price. Often this is a just a few pence, and the price is displayed front end as .15 GBP (for example) - which looks like 15 pounds, not 15p. I have to change all these manually too. It would be better if the extension formatted prices as prices not numbers, i.e with leading zero and two decimal places. A price of 20p is displayed as .2 GBP.

Another annoying point is that books are automatically unpublished when saved - you can't select "publish" when entering the book info. Just another step but when you've got a lot of books it's time consuming.

My work flow is going like this: Add new book- copy/paste ISBN and give my own ID (should be auto if not filled in, imo), select category (should be auto-selected if previously filtered imo), select fetch from amazon.co.uk - SAVE (closes form- need an APPLY button). Re-open form to view fetched data, change to "on my own" for fetching data, correct mistakes (see above), SAVE (again), Click on publish. As far as I can see it would save a lot of time if I could hit APPLY to fetch the data without closing the form, and if I could also select "publish" from the form, or even better configure the ext so that it defaults to "publish".

Having said all that, it is free after all and just what I'm after in terms of frontend.

I used this component for a lending library, and purchased the pro version because I wanted multiple categories. I was able to configure most of it to suit my client's requirements, but did need a couple of fields added in the lend request form, which the Ordasoft team took care of very promptly and effectively. Support was always first class. The ISBN feature is invaluable, instantly bringing in all the relevant information. My server does not provide the PHP YAZ extension, so I could only search Amazon (as in the Basic version) for old ISBNs. However googling, copying and pasting worked ok for the few I couldn't do automatically. I'm VERY happy with this extension, and my client is delighted! What I would like to see is a way for the client to review lend requests from the front end. Congratulations to the Ordasoft team for a great extension.

I used this extension for a site catering to ex-pats in Haikou, China. The software installed without a hitch and allows me to monitor the movement of books from person to person. I did not need to contact the developer for support, as I could find all the necessary information I needed to slightly modify the appearance of the extension to suit my site.

Very easy to deploy and use. Many thanks to the developer for this very useful extension.

Very good and useful component. It seems to be designed more for shop users, than for library users. For real libraries users an enhanced import/export for different bibliographic standars, more and custamizable fields, document types etc. are missing - but still this is the best Joomla component for Book Libraries/Shops available!

What I found expecially to notice, is the great support provided by the OrdaSoft Team, also for the non commercial version. Thank you.

I only just installed the component yesterday and had issues with it immediately it was in. I posted a message in the forum and got help much faster than I thought I would. Honestly, that impressed me and I rate the willingness to assist very highly. The only reason this is not a 5 star rating is because it's only been a day and although I don't have any issues with the component, I've not used it long enough and comprehensively enough to give it maximum points.

Still, I think it's great.

Excellent complement and very good support for the pro version.

After much searching the Ordasoft Book Library Pro component along with supporting modules is exactly what I needed and is money well spent. The support is first class and response time very quick. I had a few minor teething problems due to my joomla settings and they were sorted out very quickly. Thank you for a great component.

I just added an ebook collection to my library website, and it has worked like a charm. My only problems with the modules and component so far are these:
1. There is a typo in the search module. It says "Autors" instead of "Authors", and I can't seem to find the bit of code to correct it.
2. I don't want my students to buy the books from Amazon, but I can't get rid of the "buy now" icon on each record.
Other than those two issues, I really like this extension. Thanks.

Nice idea.

The next I propos is done on it is working on the display layout but first of all remove the requirement for ISBN, as old books miss this, books doesn't even need to have it, the number may be wrong and you might want to list articles, pamphlets etc

Very important componet for a library. I have tried a lot of solution but this one it's the best.
Compliment for the excellent support by the authors

BookLibrary is a great component with a limited, by design, function and that's to catalogue books.

For those reading, I bought the Pro version right away in order to take advantage of its features which are needed for the library I'm working on which has recently received a donation from a former priest and Bishop who has donated some 300 books to our small town church. Some very rare and old.

I had a problem where I needed to change the default BookID and sort from numberic and unique to alphanumberic and allowing for duplicatons as the classification for this purpose is the Dewey Decimal Classification (shelving) which allows for and encourages duplication. The site admin was both helpful and quick to respond once we overcame the problems that arise between native english speakers and those who aren't.

If you collect things other than books then JCollection is the choice but for books this is the best component I've seen for Joomla at any price. Well supported and well coded judging by it's performance.

This is an excellent component.If you want a digital library for your site,then this is the component for you.Has whole lot of all the required features and works beautifully.I had a few problems with the download options of ebooks after installing ,mostly caused by my own misconfiguration of settings in the backend.I asked for a solution on the ordasoft support forums and within a few hours,the admin solved my problem.I m really very thankful to the developers of this component for their excellent work in developing this component.

This is my first review of any component at joomla and i wish I would have given 50 stars to it.....Made an account on joomla just to write this review for this wonderful component.Thanx a lot..ordasoft.