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kfarmer — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 02:52:16 GMT

I wrote my own for a CueCat.

One thing you may notice is that there are books which have conflicting information between Amazon and LOC -- and at times both are incorrect.

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the Wife — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 04:33:38 GMT

You forgot to mention the "Oh, Wow!" part: it finds images of most of the books to show you what the front cover looks like.

The moviez one also downloads all the imdb stuff so you can browse the information for collection.

I think the "loaned" feature might come in handy in the future. If we make people use it, maybe we'll know who keeps taking books of the shelves and leaving them all over the house ;-)

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Base — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 08:02:57 GMT

http://www.delicious-monster.com/

Wait... you're not using a mac. Sorry. :P

Glad to hear you're having a good experience though. :)

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bendji — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 09:05:43 GMT

he he, was just thinking WHAT... your first book was about the Checkpoint firewall.......After following the link I’m happy to see that it's a sci-fi book and that you after all are normal like us others *Grins* Think my first bought book, that I can remember, was Dune by Frank Herbert.

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Ken White — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 19:52:09 GMT

Larry,

Thanks for the link. I've got a pretty extensive library (4K+ books), as well as a DVD collection (250 or so).

I've been thinking about writing my own app to catalog them; this looks perfect, though, and for the price is much more cost-effective.

Ken

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Ben — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 06:24:45 GMT

If you are serious into books, check this meta-search tool out!

http://www.addall.com/

It's designed for bargain hunters, but sometimes it finds ISBNs that Amazon doesn't list!

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Isaac Lin — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:05:00 GMT

Andrew Plotkin wrote up details about his book scaning project, using his own Python scripts to retrieve details via the web about each scanned book:

http://www.eblong.com/zarf/bookscan/

In his description, he talks about books with EANs versus the
now obsolete 12-digit UPC. By scanning both codes on books where both are available, he built up a mapping from UPC manufacturer codes to book publisher numbers in the EAN, which could then be used on books that only have the old 12-digit UPC.

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Mark-Jan Harte — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 22:32:04 GMT

I'm glad you find our software useful, Larry. Must be a relief for your wife as well, considering it was her gift :)

Anyway, for the interested Mac reader: we do have Mac editions of Music, Movie and Book Collector as well.

Enjoy the program; let us know if you have any further questions or suggestions.

Mark-Jan Harte
Collectorz.com

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Mike Dimmick — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 22:53:45 GMT

"one tricky bit is that the barcode on the back of the book often isn't the ISBN, which screws up the database lookup, but that's really not the fault of the software."

Presumably that's a UPC (Uniform Product Code) barcode which is there to accommodate the US retailers who _still_ haven't updated their Point of Sale software/hardware to cope with EAN (European Article Numbering) barcodes. EAN, for those who don't know, is physically compatible with UPC but fiddles with the parity algorithms in one half of the barcode in order to encode an extra digit - 13 digits to UPC's 12. The parity scheme used in UPC works out as a leading '0' in the EAN scheme - the UPC code ABCDEFGHJKLM is EAN 0ABCDEFGHJKLM. I've noticed that a number of products - particularly CDs - carry UPC barcodes even here in the UK, presumably to allow the same physical items to be sold in the US. While called 'European', the rest of the world has been using EAN for many, many years. Japan officially uses 'Japanese Article Numbering' (JAN) but in fact it's the same scheme as EAN.

The standard system for allocating barcodes for books is to use the EAN symbology with a product number starting '978', then the ISBN less the ISBN check digit (a total of 9 characters), then the appropriate EAN check digit.

I recall reading that US retailers are going to have to start accepting EAN codes fairly soon. I think this may be to do with having to have surrogate codes in UPC for products made by overseas manufacturers, these codes therefore limiting the number of prefixes available to US manufacturers.

The group responsible for the product barcoding scheme has been through many names - when I started working with barcodes in 2001 it was called EAN.UCC but now goes by the name of GS1 (www.gs1.org).

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Sytske, Collectorz.com — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:30:11 GMT

Hi Larry, thanks for your lovely review. It's always nice to hear from a happy collector. I especially liked the idea of you and Valerie running around with hard-to-find books :-) and Book Collector just doing it's job.
I've added your post to our review section, just follow the posted URL.
Happy collecting from us at Collectorz.com!

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Isaac Lin — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 23:26:35 GMT

Andrew Plotkin wrote up an essay on his book scanning project, using his own homegrown Python tools to retrieve the book information:

http://www.eblong.com/zarf/bookscan/

He ingeniously handled the mapping from the manufacturer in the UPC code to the appropriate book publisher in the ISBN by scanning both the EAN and UPC in books that had them both, and thereby building up the mapping that could then be used for books that only had a traditional 12-digit UPC.

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Isaac Lin — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 23:28:57 GMT

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David Chilton — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 23:52:39 GMT

Delicious Library, from Seattle-ite Wil Shipley and Delicious Monster, is awesome. It performs image recognition on the barcode using Apple's iSight camera (which is now built into their laptops and iMac), but also supports a laser barcode scanner.

One downfall is it can't find _Xenocide_ and _Children of the Mind_ using the barcode. I had to type in the ISBN numbers to find them.

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print barcode — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 04:29:34 GMT

a barcoder printing software can make things easier!

such as " SmartCodeStudio", it 's Industry-leading label design, barcode and printing software.

http://www.sharewarecheap.com/business-finance-inventory-systems/smartcodestudio-professional-edition11986-1.htm

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Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:22:29 GMT

Here's a ruby script to convert EANs to ISBNs

http://entropicprincipal.blogspot.com/2006/02/convert-eans-to-isbns-in-ruby.html

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