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1. DELICIOUS LIBRARY EXPORT CSV ORDER INFORMATION HOW TO
2. DELICIOUS LIBRARY EXPORT CSV ORDER INFORMATION CODE
3. DELICIOUS LIBRARY EXPORT CSV ORDER INFORMATION PLUS

I know Amazon, and thus goodreads, can now do search by cover - it is amazon, but it does avoid a lot of issues.

DELICIOUS LIBRARY EXPORT CSV ORDER INFORMATION PLUS

I think ISBNs sometimes are different soft vs hard, BUT ISBNs are new and sometimes get reused, plus the barcode might be for a category or "book/zine of series" and not a particular copy.

DELICIOUS LIBRARY EXPORT CSV ORDER INFORMATION CODE

I know someone that has a barcode reader and wrote ee's own code to parse it for a database, even printing personal barcodes to handle repeats (sentimental value, different format). It seems that people have favourites but there is nothing leading the charge. Again, you can cross-check these (either exhaustively or spot-check) against the OCRed contents of the frontmatter pages, which (again) you associated with a book title in the initial step. It may be possible for you to simply populate the Calibre book list with titles and ISBNs, and have it just magically whisk other details - date of publication etc. Google Books to pull up the rest of the info, which you can sanity check against the other deets you OCRed out of the frontmatter page.įinal tip: Calibre has a book information lookup thingy it wasn't what I used back in the day, but AFAIK it should work great. to sanity-check the results of your ISBN lookup.Ĭongratulations, you now have enough information - a title and and ISBN - for e.g. As backup/redundancy you can grab other info as well, e.g. Now, you can OCR those pics for the ISBN. So, book 1 on your list is the first pic on your SLR. Guess what? They are the same length and in the same order.

Now you have a list of books and a set of pics. Put the eight books back on the shelf and take another eight. (I like eight because it's a nice round number, it's near miller's magic number, and it's also a number of books I can typically carry.)įor each 'byte' of eight books, take your SLR and, in photo mode, take a pic of the frontmatter page of that book - the one containing the date of publication, and, most critically, the ISBN. Now, again, working top-down, left-to-right, take books out in sets of eight. Once you are certain your list is accurate and complete, print (or put on your phone) the list of books. If you missed a book, or couldn't read the spine from the recording, add it here.

Set yourself or someone else up transcribing the titles from the recording, in the order shelved. In good lighting, play it over the shelves, one by one, from left to right. Next, grab an SLR (or equivalent mirrorless) camera with video mode. It's critical that the books not go wandering or get rearranged during this process. It worked great:įirst, close the library (or library section) until your work is complete. I had a gig doing this once in grad school. Paperback and hardcover books have separate ISBNs. ISBN, by the way, will tell you the format of the book. It can also look up by the LOC catalog number (which is not the call number but rather a consecutively assigned number which can be found on the copyright page of books published starting some time in the 1960s).

These will need to be entered manually (not to bad with the mobile app which has a dedicated ISBN keyboard). The gotcha is that mass-market paperback before sometime in the 80s (I probably have the date wrong) do not have the ISBN in them. LibraryThing's mobile app will scan barcodes just fine.

DELICIOUS LIBRARY EXPORT CSV ORDER INFORMATION HOW TO

I wanted to be able to shelve books by LoC call number and this has a pretty good (although not always complete) lookup for most call numbers (I have learned how to generate a call number for books that don't have them and also discovered that the University of Chicago Library doesn't use the same cutter numbers that the LoC and most other libraries use). I'll second the recommendation for LibraryThing.