The more I look at prices for barcode scanners (and even before I work out the cost of printing pages or cards), the more I think I won't be using this soon. :-) So please don't start any work on my account -- hopefully the bump to this thread will interest more people though!
You mention ISBN; do you mean the UPC? ISBN is for books afaik. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Product_Code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number I hadn't thought of looking the barcode up online! That's smart: use the tags I've already entered to work out the UPC. Certainly saves scanning them all! Although if there were a lot of cases where an album may have more than one UPC, a compromise could be made where the user scans each of his barcodes and the software looks up the album, and tries to match it to something in the existing collection. If you don't mind me asking: is it very expensive to print off that many pages? RFID would be interesting, but I suspect they'd be much more expensive than barcodes (which are, after all, just ink on paper). Barcodes are no more expensive than the print costs of the library; RFID is an additional cost per page. (I always fancied using RFID with my actual CDs, but soon found out that the cost was silly.) I do like the idea of using Gumstix. It's at times like this that I wish I had more electronics knowledge: it would be fun to put something together. Perhaps this will give me cause to look into that some more. :-) Very kind of you to offer the CueCat -- I'm in the UK however so probably won't be in the area very soon. If I do get a scanner some time, I'll be sure to check back in. Maybe I'll even rifle through the code myself. (BTW, I fully understand the motivations behind writing something while there's a need, then letting it be when it's satisfactory.) Cheers, Steve -- smst ------------------------------------------------------------------------ smst's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=752 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29630 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
