HI all, On Saturday 28 February 2009 16:31:49 Randall R Schulz wrote:

On Saturday February 28 2009, Bogdan Cristea wrote:

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On Saturday 28 February 2009 10:59:31 James

Hatridge wrote:

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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

Hi Greg et al, On Sunday 01 March 2009 13:30:58 Greg Freemyer wrote:

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 3:27 AM, James Hatridge wrote: <snip>

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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?

In windows bar code scanners / kernel can be configured to dump ascii data straight into the keyboard buffer so you don't need app support. Is the same not true in Linux?

Greg

What I am looking for is some software that will first scan in the bar code on a book, then look online for the title, writer etc, then add that info to my database. I found software that can do that, but its only for windows. Once I have all the books in the database I could use any online store software to run my web site. JIM

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On Sunday 01 March 2009 07:30:58 am Greg Freemyer wrote:

In windows bar code scanners / kernel can be configured to dump ascii data straight into the keyboard buffer so you don't need app support. Is the same not true in Linux?

As in Windows, nothing needs to be done to get a barcode reader to work in linux. Barcode readers can emulate keyboards, USB and PS/2. (There could be issues with some laptops, but those are hardware issues and have nothing to do with the O/S running.) Barcode scanners that emulate keyboards don't care what O/S is running. BTW, the barcode readers are not "dump[ing] ascii" into the keyboard buffer. They are emulating the keyboard. You can configure some bardcode readers to transmit ascii, but that's usually done via RS232. Tim -- 08:50:01 up 21 days, 15:57, 3 users, load average: 2.50, 0.86, 0.40 "It's what you learn after you know it all that counts" John Wooden