On 6/19/07 21:53 PM, "Ruth Bygrave" <email@hidden> wrote:
I want to do my own book catalogue eventually, using Amazon for
lookup to help with data entry. I feel this would be fun and teach me
a lot, and I like books.
Honestly? Buy Delicious Library, then after you see what it does,
email Wil
Shipley, and chat with him. He's a bit...into...Cocoa, but he's a
nice sort,
and likes to encourage people such as yourself.
What I want to do as the beginning of the project is use my barcode
scanner to keep track of my library books so I can keep them up to
date. If I never have to do the data entry by hand (because the ISBN
is unambiguous lookup and I can get that with a barcode scanner), and
I don't have to worry about it being scalable because it's 20 books
at a time, I could have great fun with that. But the 'no data entry'
end of the project would depend on lookup, which is the bit I don't
know how to do.
Actually, you may be right. If I buy Delicious Library and use it to
enter all my 500 books, I've got the ordinary dumb user stuff done
for me in something I can use, it's worth $40 to me to get the data
entry done for me by somebody else doing lookup, and I could then e-
mail Will and ask if he could give me a few hints about where to
start with my silly 'keeping my library books up to date' app...
Thanks, that's a great help.
One of my big problems with this list is that I assume it's full of
busy professionals and it's somehow a bit unfair to bother them with
Script Kiddie questions...
