The beauty is that it's not so much about keeping it up to date for new
comics, but for the comic books you have already bought.

Robert Everland III
Dixon Ticonderoga
Web Developer Extraordinaire

-----Original Message-----
From: cf refactoring [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 12:17 PM
To: CF_OpenSource
Subject: Re: FW: comic book database and application


It's an interesting idea, but I'd caution you that
this is a pretty big undertaking, because the majority
of the work is not in the application design but
rather in maintaining the quality of the database.

I'm an avid comic book buyer, and from chatting with
my comics store in the past, they used to have this
barcode-scanning application that would identify the
comic book and the purchaser and sum up the purchase
to be logged in a database. This would not be hard at
all. However, they had to download information about
the comics books themselves from an expensive database
because with 50-100 titles coming in each week, it's
just not feasible to do all the data entry
yourself....

Just my two cents...

I-Lin Kuo
--- Robert Everland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>       I have been debating this around for a while in my
> head, here are
> some raw ideas.
> 
> 1. Would use bar code as identifier
> 2. Would be able to get price of comic, purchase
> price and value
> 3. Would have scanned images of the comics
> 4. Databse would be broken down by brand, title, and
> some other things I
> can't think of right now.
> 
> 
> Who has some comic books that would like to
> participate in this? I was
> thinking of using a cue cat to scan the bar codes,
> just hack it up and use
> it for now so I don't have to pay for anything.
> 
> Robert Everland III
> Dixon Ticonderoga



=====
I-Lin Kuo
Macromedia CF5 Advanced Developer
Sun Certified Java 2 Programmer

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