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 -- Jim Hatridge Linux User #88484 Ebay ID: WartHogBulletin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org