Level It Books

Maybe there are better apps out there for a class from collections? This one is missing all of the things that everyone else has noted- print, export, etc. There also doesn't seem to be a way to combine libraries or move/copy a book from one library to another. Scanning ISBN numbers didn't work very well. Often it either couldn't find that ISBN or when it did, that particular version didn't have any levels listed. Searching the title work a bit better since the same title has multiple ISBNs and I was able to click around and sometimes found a one with a level. But, many titles have no levels under any ISBN. I had to spend a lot of time on Scholastic's and AR's site to find levels, and come back to this app to save the book to a library, based on levels. All of the extra research made cataloging hundreds of books a very, very long process. I also posted a question on their FB page, but it looks like it takes over a week to get an answer, so I'm still waiting.

It's not that bad, but there are many flaws that makes the app kind of pointless. I have a personal collection of 500 books with cds, most from Scholastic. I completed entering the data. Mist of the time, I had to manually search either by title or author, because it would not find the ISBN by scanning it. Most of the books do only have the Lexile levels. Most of the time, there were no pictures either from scanning or manually searching for a book. Many of my ISBN were not in the system, so I had to choose the same title but with a different ISBN. This will cause a problem when kids will checkout a book with ISBN that is not in the system. So, I think it's great to easily find my books in my library, but that ends there. More than half of my books didn't have their ISBN in the system, but were under different ISBN.

There's good and bad to this app. The great thing is they have a classroom library and it gives a check in and check out system which can be very helpful to teachers. On the other end, I've looked up GR levels that are missing and submit them and it gives me a message that they are reviewing it. When does that process happen? It seems like the creators of this app are a little out of the loop with the reviewers. People are asking for better quality and paying for this app makes it even more frustrating when something doesn't work how it's advertised. Also, it's exhausting to spend forever leveling books by typing all the titles in because it's more likely they will come up then if you scan it. This app has great potential. Please update it.

I got this app to catalog books for a teacher. It was a bit of work but I was able to catalog about 300 books in a couple of days. Unfortunately there is no export function so I had to use OCR to retrieve the titles and retype isbns to make a spreadsheet (an export function would go a long way) and look all over the Internet for GR levels. The app has GR levels but sometimes the book is leveled under one isbn but not leveled under another isbn. In the end I used my spreadsheet to print barcode/level stickers for the books so now it is easy to check books in and out. The problem is, there is no history of check-outs, so the teacher can control currently checked books but not who read what - a big flaw.

We love this app because it levels books and catalogs them at the same time, which obviously saves some time for us because we need both functions. But we would say there were some incorrect F&P levels, so just be careful of that. We had to cross-reference about 15% of books with another source. And most of those showed the incorrect level in the Level It app. The scanning feature worked fabulously and made it so easy. We would definitely recommend this app to those that need leveling and cataloging, just keeping in mind that some of the levels may be off.