Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1639 mails)

[James Hatridge <James.Hatridge@xxxxxx>]

HI all,
On Saturday 28 February 2009 16:31:49 Randall R Schulz wrote:
> On Saturday February 28 2009, Bogdan Cristea wrote:
> > On Saturday 28 February 2009 10:59:31 James
> >
> > Hatridge wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'm thinking about setting up an on-line used book store, BUT
> > > the thought of type in maybe 1000's of titles etc is too much.
> > > SO does anyone know of Linux software for a book store
> > > where I can use a barcode scanner to input book titles?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > JIM
> >
> > Take a look at openBiblio:
> > http://obiblio.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > This is also provided by openSuSE Education
>
> Is this project active? Has anyone here used it? The software seems
> minimally documented and the web site poorly maintained. The software
> itself has not reached even version 1.0, with the most recent (minor)
> release 10 months old and the release before that was over a year
> earlier (two years old now).
>
> I've been using Delicious Library (<http://www.delicious-monster.com/>)
> on my (now-disabled) iMac and wouldn't mind replacing it with a
> Linux-based solution, even I do have to scan nearly a thousand books
> again. Delicious Library is pretty good, though its barcode scanning
> using the Mac's built-in camera is a bit iffy and too often I have to
> enter ISBNs manually. It's nice that it uses Amazon to look up book
> information and populate entries automatically.
>
> Is there anything comparable (free or otherwise) for Linux? As for Jim,
> ability to scan ISBN barcodes is a necessity.
>
>
> Randall Schulz

I got to thinking on this some more. I don't really need "book store" 
software, any store software that can use a bar code reader would work, I 
hope. What do you guys think?

JIM
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