Alfa Ebooks Manager for Windows

User Reviews

• So limited that you can't try it

  tledivenachJanuary 27, 2016

  Pros

  Based on the few things it shows, I think this was the kind of product I needed that is to say not a reader but an ebook manager.

  Cons

  The free version is so limited that you can't even import one book of yours, i.e. just to ckeck what is taken into account and so...

  Summary

  Not worth, I'm very disapointed.

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• Unprofessional support, defective forum...

  RicG80May 29, 2014

  Pros

  Nice responsive and fast UI

  Cons

  Support doesn't answer your questions, you're lost even as paying customer, no built-in update check (suggested way is to contact support even to provide you minor updates). Forum doesn't work properly (after registration you have to change the password, but that's impossible as there's no password form provided in the forum's profile area, no possibility to logout, no SSL). That's so ridiculous, we are in the year 2014, not in the 80's.

  Summary

  I have purchased the professional version last year and paid the upgrade to version 5 in the end of April, unfortunately some days later had to reinstall my machine and accidentially forgot to backup the licensed upgrade (got this sent as link via mail after upgrade purchase). Have been asking support twice to resend me my software package. No response, nothing... So basically paid for nothing... There's also no login area for existing customers where you could download newest version of the paid software. It's a nice application, but I will never recommend it anymore to anyone according to my most disappointing experience I made as a paying customer with their unresponsive support. Pity, but that's the truth. Have trashed my license and gone back to Calibre...

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• No bugs!? Is this comment belonging to the developers?

  Ciprian_PopaSeptember 29, 2013

  Pros

  The only thing that made me buy this thing was related to the fact that you can give it a directory for scan and it will browse inside for every file and the result is an item in the library for each file without making its own directory (unlike Calibre). Apart from this it only messes up things like searching inside some strange databases with almost no titles to search for. Most of the metadata can be obtained from amazon (at least this can get it right).

  Cons

  For a payed program I guess one wants more (more than in every freeware). The program is full of bugs. I am talking about the pro version. Just to name a few you are very likely to bump into at every start of the program: 1. frequent crash at item deletion: the program crashes 50% of the time when you try to delete an item from the library. 2. Mixes up the covers of the books. Just add a new book and you'll have the new image cover taking over the covers of other books. 3. No way to remove a book from a category in the left pane in case you assign wrongly the category. One has to browse into the book's card to remove the category. 4. One cannot order by name in a category inside of another category. 5. Search for books filter not working to good. If one wants to find a word the search engine would find also the words containing the word your looking for. 6. It lucks an undo option. If you do a mistake canceling one book or any other strange move that you make you cannot recover it.

  Summary

  In case free programs would have featured the search in the folder without making their own structure directories I shouldn't have bought this buggy thing. Unless you don't mind changing directories of 60 + Gb of books you shouldn't consider buying this thing. There are many other bugs that didn't fit in the cons space but don't bother to search for them in this version (v. 4). Let's hope they would fix some in the succesive version.

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• Many features, great appearance, no bugs

  July 23, 2013

  Pros

  All the features I need in Lite version (v. 4) Fine appearance Easy to search for books, add covers

  Cons

  None so far; can't understand the bad reviews above.

  Summary

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• Looks Pretty

  Purplelady7777October 25, 2012

  Pros

  Great Skeleton

  Cons

  The evaluation copy is not good enough to evaluate. Therefore won't invest any money to find out if anything works.

  Summary

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• Useless software

  OmarMNMay 28, 2012

  Pros

  The only pro I can think of is that this software looks better than other similar ones, but that is of little value considering the cons.

  Cons

  I bought the "Lite" version for 20 bucks, and it is really useless software. Adding books to the collection is a pain and takes forever. You have to enter every little detail. The Pro version is supposed to allow scanning your hard drive for books, but am not planning to spend more money on it. The authors of the software should be honest and offer only the free or pro version. Adobe digital editions us much better software and is free.

  Summary

  Don't waste your money with this software. The Lite version is as useless as the Free version.

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• Slow, buggy, useless

  DanelRhodesFebruary 1, 2012

  Pros

  None detected.

  Cons

  Slow and unresponsive. Horrible ergonomics, the interface is a nightmare to use. Buggy, intermittent crashes. The so-called free version is a disgrace with 0 functionality.

  Summary

  I was watching the program since its early stages hoping that someday it might become usable. But it's gotten slower, buggier and a nightmare to use. The latest release features the so-called 'free' version that has less functionality than most demo versions out there. Straight to garbage can!

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• Many many Bugs in VErsion 2, no answers from programmer

  maddoc43August 7, 2011

  Pros

  I see no pros, the version 2 is simply not working on my Win7 64 bit environnement.

  Cons

  The program starts with a huge error message window, if clicked away, almost all functions get a new error message.Have copied this messages and emailed to programmer They showed no reaction last 4 weeks.

  Summary

  Pitifully buggy software, possibly a scam. Unusable, not even the support email link is working!! . Programmer has no interest in a paying (!) custmoer. Never again will i buy from them.<br /><br /><span class='notifyMsg'> Updated </span>on Aug 28, 2011<p/>Programmer was answering now, and explained some of the errors. Version 2.2 is out and more stable. Still my ebook collection ist way to big for it ( &gt;250k documents) so i wait for further improvements. For smaller collections it may be appropriate.Would give 3 to 4 stars for Ver. 2.2 now...

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• Overall a very good application.

  alfa-romeoJuly 9, 2009

  Pros

  Useful and easy to use

  Cons

  bit slow really.

  Summary

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• Overall a very good application.

  alfa-romeoJuly 9, 2009

  Pros

  Useful and easy to use

  Cons

  none to be honest

  Summary

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