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- vburo
what is the name of that app that was posted here before?
you could like keep the barcode of your books in front of your webcam/camera and it would read the code and add it to your digital database...
- Jaline0
oh yeah, I'm looking for that too...
- vburo0
*bumpee
- ********0
delicious library
i have it, it's awesome!
- vburo0
thanks fawn!
*sends fawn a lifesize realdoll of steven seagal
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- ********0
hahaha! ew!
- vburo0
fawn, where does it retrieve the data from?
does it handle ALL books with isbn code?
like also rare old books and stuff??
- ********0
it downloads the information off amazon.com. it isn't set up for bar codes in canada yet so i had to enter the title of the book/movie/cd/game and it would search amazon and then download the info from there. if you bought something from the states though the scanning thing would work (i was able to scan a couple things, it was so cool!). i am pretty sure they are developing it to work with other countries, so hopefully that will happen soon
- vburo0
hmm... states only scanning option.. bah.
so it gets the covers and stuff from amazon? they should use other sources as well, like http://www.alibris.com/ .. i used this one yesterday for the first time and it gets even the rarest of books by isbn code..
- vburo0
wtf??
who here read my last post and bought a certain book i really wanted (and most of us do) today??
it was still there yesterday.
*shakes fist
:''(
- vburo0
this seems to check more sources then jsut Amazon only:
Booxter.
I jsut tested Delicious Library and it was a bit disappointing since it will only retrieve info for books that are on sale at amazon.. that's pretty pointless imho. we all have out of print books and stuff..
gonna try booxter now, it's cheaper and it also supports scanning of barcodes..
- vburo0
btw. here's a good isbn search engine:
- ********0
thats true about old books, but it is usefull to me for when i lend out dvd's or video games because you can create users and put whatever they have borrowed from you in their profile. plus it looks really cool :)
different strokes for different folks i guess :P