[Gllug] Alexandria and bar code scanners

[James Courtier-Dutton]

2009/8/9 Bob Giles <thecorfiot at gmx.co.uk>:
> Caroline Ford wrote:
>> On 8 Aug 2009, at 22:09, Joel Bernstein <joel at fysh.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 8 Aug 2009, at 22:03, Bob Giles wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was just wondering whether anyone has had any success using a bar
>>>> code
>>>> scanner to input ISBNs into Alexandria Book Collection Manager. The
>>>> recommended scanner would appear to be the CueCat scanner but as far
>>>> as
>>>> I can ascertain, they have been out of production for years.
>>>>
>>> Not familiar with that specific software but most people I know who
>>> catalogue their books do so by holding up book covers / barcodes to a
>>> webcam, and driving Delicious Library or similar that way.
>>>
>>
>> I just type in the ISBN. How many books do you actually have?
>>
>> Caroline
>>
> Caroline,
>
> That's a valid point. I am not up to Tet's numbers yet, but a couple of
> thousand ISBNs. is a pain to type. Technology can be so much more fun!
>
and technology is less likely to mistype a letter.
Using a cheap web cam, placed somewhere you can present a book to
would probably be the cheapest option. Linux has software that can
convert the image to a barcode.

Kind Regards

James
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