Hmmm... Some slashdot readers are just as anal-retentive, I guess;
someone pointed to the following site. Check out
http://www.readerware.com/ for somebody elses' commerical take on the same
problem. Their software looks... interesting. They also extol the
virtues of the Qode reader, which is mobile and stores 100 bar-codes at a
time.
Is it overly geeky to want to catalog everything?
-Daniel
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
> srl [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth:
> *>>
> *>> :) It's in Perl. Actually, so many of people have mailed me about it maybe
> *>> I should finish it and do up a little talk for it. The CDDB part is
> *>> unfinished yet, but hmm..I had no idea that people wouldn't find this
> *>> incredibly anal retentive.
> *>
> *>Actually, my partner and I were talking about using a barcode system
> *>to track who you loan $ITEM to, and when they said they'd give it
> *>back. A home library system. That would be cool.
>
> Indeed. This application was mostly due to the fact that I'd find
> duplicates of books sometimes as well as Jarkko and I wanting to keep our
> libraries straight :) Read "Ex Libris".
>
> What it does is I have a shell on the OBSD box in the basement and read
> the ISBN in, the application then queries amazon.com for all the author
> info, etc. as well as the little jpg of the cover and shoves it into a
> mysql table. It's not finished just yet but hmmm...i'll make an effort to
> get it done for next month's tech meeting.
>
> If I had the discspace I'd also have it rip mp3s of all 400 or so CDs and
> make a jukebox with it....but I'm still in denial that my computer is also
> my stereo.
>
> e.
>
