Re: Amazon Web Services
Re: Amazon Web Services
- Subject: Re: Amazon Web Services
- From: cheshirekat <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:02:28 -0600
On Wed, Jun 20, 20075:10 AM, the following words from Ruth Bygrave
email@hidden, emerged from a plethora of SPAM ...
>
>On 20 Jun 2007, at 04:11, John C. Welch wrote:
>
>> 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...
>
I had to come out of lurking mode for this topic because this is
something that I am also interested in getting started. I recently
upgraded from my G4 PowerBook to a Mac Pro. One of the main projects on
my mind is to catalog our books and DVDs. Later, I also plan to catalog
our software and ebooks.
My original plan was to buy an iMac with the built-in iSight as a
barcode scanner and get DVDpedia/Bookpedia from <http://bruji.com/
dvdpedia/index.html>. The 'pedias' supposedly do the searching for you
with the barcodes or UPC. However, after saving for a bit longer, I
decided to buy the Mac Pro with a 23" Cinema Display, but then found
that Apple no longer sells the iSight. Now that my plan is bust, I
haven't decided yet on which handheld barcode scanner is compatible with
my Mac, or my Palm PDA would be my second choice.
However, I also still need to upgrade FileMaker Pro (currently have
version 6 still on my PowerBook.) and could use the latest FMP as my
database. If so, I was considering using AppleScript to do the looking
for me through Amazon. I also looked into using SOAP but found it
overwhelming because I could not find a clear starting point. Once I
decide on a handheld scanner, I may still use DVDpedia, as it is
inexpensive, then export to FMP because that will enable me to have a
bit more time to learn all the new changes in FMP and AppleScript
changes in FMP that will affect my old FMP scripts.
Our DVD and book collections are quite large, so I'm not sure it will be
a task I'd want to do as simple data entry myself. I waited to do this
project on a new Mac because my PB has only USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 is much
more bearable for scanning when looking at thousands of items to
catalog. Eventually, I'll have to export to some sort of database on my
Palm because the main reason for getting the catalog done is to keep the
database on our PDAs so we don't buy multiple copies of the same DVDs
and books when shopping.
Hopefully this discussion will provide some insight into what others may
be doing and recommend. I'll take another look at Delicious Library as
it looks like a Bluetooth bar code scanner can be bought with it. And I
almost deleted this topic - so little time even when lurking, you know.
--
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can
survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even
alone in genders.
_Maya Angelou (b. 1928), U.S. author_
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