It's not complicated to write a plugin to Calibre that does what you want. But personally I don't like working for commercial companies for free. I think the right thing to do is to go the cddb way of making a free database for books and dana codes. I don't trust a company to not all the sudden change their mind and decide to ask for money.
Ely On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Amichai Rotman <amic...@iglu.org.il> wrote: > Hi All, > > Just a quick recap: > > I would like to add my 300~ Hebrew books to by Calibre [1] catalog. I > already add most of my English books. The "problem" with Hebrew books is > that they have no ISBN (almost all of the new ones) but the Israeli > equivalent - D.A.N.A. Code. > Currently, there is no way to freely query the D.A.N.A. Code database. This > code is provided and the database is maintained by a private company > called Dana Code Systems [2]. > > I understand it is easy enough to write a plugin to extend Calibre's > capabilities, so I thought maybe we (as in the FOSS community in Israel) can > write that plugin and query the database. I called Dana Code Systems > and spoke with Uri - a developer. > > He says it's not a problem to query their data base for book info, but the > info included is intended for book shops and book distributors: Price, > category, author - no book cover or summery. > > He is willing to grant us query access to the data base if I convince him > it will be worth while for his company from a business point of view, i.e.: > They will provide the access in return for paying customers, being a private > company and all... > > Dana Code Systems sells a year subscription to access their data base. They > once considered populating the DB with the missing data (cover image, > summery etc.), and even found a Librarian that was willing to do the data > entry, but they dropped it due to financial reasons. > > In short, any of you can think of a way we can, as a community, make this > happen? > > I am willing to help, but I am no developer, just a Linux user... :-) > > Uri is waiting for an e-mail from me, with my suggestion. > > Thanks! > > Amichai. > > [1] http://calibre-ebook.com/ > [2] http://www.danacode.co.il/ > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:57, E L <nak...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Do you know any site that can be used to get the information by the >> D.A.N.A code? >> >> Ely >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Amichai Rotman <amic...@iglu.org.il>wrote: >> >>> Dana Code is the Israeli equivalent to ISBN. >>> >>> Pick up any Hebrew book from your bookshelf and look on the back cover, >>> where the barcode is. >>> On Aug 24, 2011 10:09 PM, "E L" <nak...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > There are Hebrew books which don't have ISBN number? >>> > And what's a dana code? I can't find it on google? >>> > >>> > Ely >>> > >>> > 2011/8/24 Amichai Rotman <amic...@iglu.org.il> >>> > >>> >> Dana Systems >>> >> >> >
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