Bookends Reference App Updated

Bookends, a full featured and cost-effective bibliography/reference and information management system for professionals and students, has been updated recently to include a slew of tweaks and fixes. Sonny Software's app costs 99 bucks to buy, is a Universal Binary and runs on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or later. A demo version is available for download.

Bookends helps users import references from EndNote or the online sources they access from their web browsers. Users can also bookmark favorite web sites and instantly access them via the browser, while attaching files (such as a PDF) to a reference, to view or open instantly, is also possible, from within the app. Additionally, Bookends can scan your word processor files and automatically generate finished manuscripts with properly formatted bibliographies. The app integrates with Microsoft's Word, Mellel, and Nisus Writer. Some Bookends 10.3.2 highlights are listed after the break.

- Smart groups saved by this version of Bookends cannot be read by older versions.

- Smart searches can be restricted to references that do or do not belong to particular static groups.

- In the online search window, select Bookends Browser from the pop-up menu to bring up the built-in browser in the entire window.

- If you are upgrading from an older version of Bookends, the database cache will be set to 8 MB regardless of what it was previously. If you had changed that setting, you must restore it in Preferences and then relaunch Bookends.

- Worked around an error on the publisher's servers that prevented this in earlier versions of Bookends.

- Fixed a problem with some complex images in Pages that could cause a crash when scanning.

- Fixed a Spotlight error that could occur when looking for local pdfs for many files at once.

You can download a demo version of Bookends right here. The unregistered version is limited to 50 references per database. A subset of the Bookends Internet search functionality is available, Reference Miner, which is free. Basically, the latter is a standalone lightweight version of Bookends' online search.