On the plus side, there is a specific tutorial on importing Bento databases over at the official support site. Export was a little more non-obvious it turns out you have to select a database and Ctrl-click to bring up a contextual menu to see the CSV option, rather than using the main file menus. The display in iDatabase is not nearly as flexibly customizable as Records (it seems like you're limited to having everything appear in some kind of default layout, though you can specify fonts and such), but otherwise it works in much the same way and seemed pretty easy to use.
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The trial is 30 days, and there's an iOS version which you can apparently sync via DropBox and use for on-the-go record browsing/updating, if that's a consideration.
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IDatabase is pretty similar (though IMHO doesn't have as nice an interface) and I tried a trial of it when I was looking at the developer's website to check out the overall quality of their software to see if I wanted to get a couple of other things of theirs which are currently being offered in a bundle deal I'm considering. Maybe one day I'll export to CSV and import everything back into Records to have a nice-looking visually-browseable copy. I got in a bundle a while back and used to use it for keeping track of my soundtrack CD collection before I just went and started keeping everything in a pseudo-YAML format via TaskPaper* because that allowed for greater flexibility in specifying exact contents as-is, rather than having to come up with a standard set of fields to fill out and accounting for variability in advance. The storage format is non-proprietary, and each one you create is just simple text in an SQLite database in a folder with a couple of other metadata files, which you can easily backup/copy/share.
It shows up in Mac software bundle offers every so often for considerably lower than the usual asking price, and you can download a 14-day trial off the website. In terms of current Mac-compatible database software which some website reviews have said works in a Bento-like fashion, Records is pretty decent, and you can import/export CSV and arrange a whole bunch of custom field displays to your liking, and create templates from them.
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