Unlock Efficiency with the Bookipi App for Public Relations

Bookipi app for Public Relations

Hello friends and enemies it's me Isabelle here with a really fun video today so we are going to talk about my library scanner this little doodad right here that I uh I did a little Tik Tok video on this and some friends requested a slightly more in-depth tutorial so I'm here with that for you today on how I use it why I use it Etc um first things first you don't need this like the app on the phone will scan the barcodes uh for the website I use which we'll talk about in a minute but um yeah so it will scan the barcode so you don't technically need this the reason I got this was because when I moved in I knew that when I was setting up my library the quickest way for me to do it because the phone barcode scanner does lag a little bit just a little bit y'all but again still very usable that this would be faster for me is also was just easier on batteries and things so like I could actually listen to my audiobook and like through so that was great yes this is just like a 30 Library scanner device it is a barcode scanner this does not work like first full caveats of what I've researched this does not work with comic books um at least not with lipid the service I use uh I don't know if it would work on other sites with your comic books or other things I've been asked if it will scan other items this site that I use is called libid this is what it is it's libib lib bib l-i-b-i-b so the side I use is called lip bib and I really like it it's pretty usable and the free version is extremely user friendly for most collectors I don't think you're gonna need more than that I think it's up to 5 000 items so like you're probably good for now so I don't know what all this this device is compatible with when it comes to um other services because that's one of the one I use but yeah this one will track your DVDs movies video games comic or Comics not Comics um so with this site you can track books DVDs video games and CDs uh so you've got options obviously here too uh the other thing that I like is it's really nice on my phone I can scan a manga or a book in the bookstore and verify if I have it or not already because that does happen sometimes so we're gonna go over to my computer first and I'm gonna show you how we hook this thing up uh which is pretty simple okay so I'm going to talk through myself doing this so first of all this is the website open this is the dashboard page where it shows you all your books I have not finished scanning in everything I own yet that is actually a project for me this winter to get every single book I own into the system but the biggest thing here is you just plug that device in you scan the card that I'm showing here where it says match with your device and you scan that and that will pair it to the little USB stick that you're currently plugging into the computer and from there you just open libib and go to add items select the category you want I have my categories broken down into romance non-romance Comics graphic novels and manga do what you want you can just have books whatever you want um so I have that done and then I just scanned my books and it's really quick this is how fast it is like it is very quick um so yeah that's kind of all you do if you have issues I recommend rematching the device because occasionally it'll just kind of like uh it'll have a little glitch and once you do that it's pretty much easy going from there to be honest with you like this is such an easy system I freaking love it so here is a real time of me scanning in some new to me books that I recently got thank you foreign [Music] not alone but please [Music] [Music] all right so now that that's done I wanted to talk to you real quick about what it tells you when you scan a book you've already scanned so one second let me grab my phone okay so let's say I'm at a bookstore right now and I open up my libib and I'm like I need to see if I have something so I'll just go into a category I'll hit scan so these are my collections I'm gonna put my phone screen right here um I'll go in I'll select manga let's say um and then I hit this plus sign and then I hit barcode and I hit books and then I'm gonna grab NaNa which I just got in the mail so you scan it with the camera and it'll say one copy already exists um you can just hit done and then it shouldn't add a duplicate to the listing but you can we'll double check it real quick yep so I only own one copy so that's how you check if you have duplicates this is especially helpful in my opinion when it comes to things like manga because those are the thing I most easily buy duplicates of because I just sometimes miss things so that's as easy as it is to scan with your phone again I think both options work for me the amount of books I have um and I had to scan it I knew that the device was going to be very helpful it also just like gives me little brain Tangles to use so there's that also like I'm not going to deny the fact that like I love just using it because it gives me the little click click um that little beep it's very nice so that is how I I catalog my books and keep track of my library let me know in the comments what you do I also have some spreadsheet versions that I use for just manga in general uh but I'm not as good about keeping those up to date as I am using livid personally I just struggle it's hard there's a lot of ways to track if you're curious about those let me know I'm happy to do a video on them but like they're just kind of basic tracking like series and what I have pre-ordered but uh otherwise let me know how you track your manga and if you don't want to do that give me like a library related Emoji of your choice or a stack of books one of those uh that'll work I'll have links to that scanner in the description box as well as links to be my friend anywhere on the internet and I will talk to y'all in just a few days [Music] about to see the world in action what we can be life with no distractions we'll get away