Just ran across Thokbook [1] by accident. It appears to use Amazon in an interesting way. Might be a nice low-cal catalog for personal use, or maybe more.
I've added it to the list of library/information science Perl apps at http://perl4lib.perl.org. If anyone knows of other relevant projects that aren't listed please let me know. //Ed [1] http://thokbook.sourceforge.net/