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Torben is a Dane lost and Texas with a passion for technology.

Export your Bookqueue books

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Bookqueue and Bookqueue II provide an “Export to File” feature that creates a comma separated file of all your queued books.  This feature is convenient if you wish to have an offline backup or need to transfer your books to a different application.  The following steps illustrate how to use the “Export to File” feature.

Windows 10 & Windows 10 Mobile

Step 1) Select the hamburger menu in the top-left corner of the application

Bookqueue Home Screen

Step 2) Select the “Settings” menu item

Step 3) Select the “Export to File” button

Step 4) Select “Save” in the Save As dialog

Step 5) Select “OK” at the Export Confirmation dialog

Step 6) Open the “Bookqueue.csv” file in Excel, Notepad, or equivalent to view your book list

Android

Step 1) Select the hamburger menu in the top-left corner of the application

Step 2) Select the “Settings” menu item

Step 3) Select the “Export to File” button

Step 4) Select “Save” in the Save As dialog

Step 5) Select “OK” at the Export Confirmation dialog

Step 7) Use “My Files” or equivalent to browse device files

Step 7) Browse to the export location (Internal storage > Download) and select “Bookqueue.csv” file

Step 8) Bookqueue.csv file will open in Excel (if installed) to view your book list

 

 

Moviequeue Released

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Moviequeue logoWith the recent release of Bookqueue II, it was a good opportunity to bring a sister application online, Moviequeue.  Moviequeue follows its older sister’s objective and features of finding and queuing movies for reference and/or later viewing.  The application is integrated with Amazon Video for searching the Amazon video catalog and ability to filter based on online or physical movie media.

Features
– Find movies by type (Amazon Video, All Movies)
– Queued movies automatically added to your Queue shelf
– Manage movies across multiple shelves, such as Watching and Archive
– Sort and order moves by priority and title
– Add reminders for pre-release titles so you get notified on the date of its release
– Customize shelves by adding your own shelf title (for example, Fiction vs. Non-Fiction, Documentaries, etc.)
– Direct link to Amazon for full movie details
– Easily search similar movies for movie recommendations
– Find latest Bestsellers
– Synchronize your device movies to OneDrive for backup and/or sharing across devices

Platform Availability
Moviequeue is available for Windows 10 and Android via the Windows and Google Play app stores.

Bookqueue II Released

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Bookqueue II imageThe holidays brought a little downtime to get a long overdue successor to Bookqueue released to the store, Bookqueue II. The purpose of Bookqueue II remains the same as Bookqueue, queueing books for later, but the implementation has changed significantly which created a brand new version rather than an evolution of the original Bookqueue app.

What’s changed?
Bookqueue was optimized for Windows 8.x and Windows Phone 8.x.   Although application behavior was similar between the full desktop and phone, they were for all purposes treated as two (2) separate applications.
Bookqueue II is optimized for Windows 10 which provides a unified experience for Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile and other supported device types in the Windows 10 family.  The benefit this provides is a single application and experience across the Windows 10 desktop/laptop/tablet/mobile devices.

What about other platforms?
By community request, there is now a version of Bookqueue II available for Android.Get it on Google Play  Bookqueue II for Android will contain feature parity with the Windows versions of Bookqueue II, and provides queue synchronization across devices. This means that if you opt in for synchronization  to your OneDrive storage, Bookqueue II for Android and Bookqueue II for Windows will be able to synchronize and share books across devices.

Running both Bookqueue and Bookqueue II
As Bookqueue and Bookqueue II are independent applications, they can be run side-by-side on supported systems, such as Windows 10.  The recommendation is to choose the version that fits your devices best.  If Bookqueue II is an option, it contains an ‘import’ feature that allows you to copy your current Bookqueue books (and shelf associations) to Bookqueue II.  You can then use Bookqueue II from that point forward.  The ‘import’ feature is not a synchronization, so you can run it multiple times without risk of deleting any books queued in Bookqueue or Bookqueue II.
Note: You cannot synchronize books across Bookqueue (original) and Bookqueue II (latest) as the synchronization feature is independent between them.

What’s next?
As Bookqueue II is a new implementation it does not have feature parity with Bookqueue.  I will be closing the gap between the two (2) versions and will be adding new capabilities to Bookqueue II going forward.  If you have a feature request, please feel free to contact me: torben.pedersen@outlook.com, always appreciate the feedback.