You have an Android phone, right? http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/android-barcode-scanner/
That page has 6 lines of python that read the URL - but 2 of those are turning it into a url and looking up the book on Google Books. All you want to do is record the barcode, so you'll want to tweak that a little bit - you probably just want to record the ISBNs to a text file and look up the details later. GoodReads has an android app that not only does the scanning, it also uploads your book list to their service that helps you track them - http://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/281-announcing-barcode-scanner-in-the-goodreads-android-app On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Patrick Elliott-Brennan < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got to scan a whole collection of books (a couple of hundred at least) > and was wondering if anyone has any experience with those that do/don't > work with Linux or know of another way I can scan the books? > > A loan of one would be good, if possible. > > Regards, > > Patrick > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
