From rhkramer at gmail.com Tue May 17 09:58:41 2011 From: rhkramer at gmail.com (Randy Kramer) Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 09:58:41 -0400 Subject: [Lvlug] (1) Donation of (Dann Washko's) Linux Books to MakeLehighValley (2) Scanner for ISBN Bar Codes Message-ID: <201105170958.41632.rhkramer@gmail.com> (1) Donation of Linux Books to MakeLehighValley When Dann Washko left Bethlehem, he gave away a lot of his computer books. I took most of them with the intention of starting a library for the lvlug and the Linux sig of that other local computer users group. That never really came to fruition, so I've decided to donate most of those books to the MakeLehighValley organization that is forming. (I've tried to write to Dann just to make sure he has no objection--I sent an email to dann at thelinuxlink.net this weekend.) (2) Scanner for ISBN Bar Codes Before I actually turn the books over, I'd like to make a list of them to put on WikiLearn or elsewhere on the Internet. Does anyone here have access to one of those (portable) bar code scanners that can read the ISBN codes on (modern) books? I'd like to find one to borrow, or find someone that's willing to scan in about 3 cartons of books. I also don't know much about them--I presume that to get the actual book information (like author, title, ...), there is another program involved that has to access the Internet? If I don't get anywhere here, I'll go to the next library book sale (Bethlehem has one in late June), and find and talk to one of the people using a scanner like that. Randy Kramer From scottp at fivestarassoc.com Tue May 17 10:39:42 2011 From: scottp at fivestarassoc.com (Scott Phelan) Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 10:39:42 -0400 Subject: [Lvlug] (1) Donation of (Dann Washko's) Linux Books to MakeLehighValley (2) Scanner for ISBN Bar Codes In-Reply-To: <201105170958.41632.rhkramer@gmail.com> References: <201105170958.41632.rhkramer@gmail.com> Message-ID: <4DD288AE.2070709@fivestarassoc.com> Randy, Look at Open Media Collectors Database (OpenDb) My wife uses it for her book / video / CD collection. It's a PHP website app that can be set up on pretty much any server. It has book lookup through Amazon and others. Puts everything in a MySQl database. Has multi user login controls. Has a lend / borrow feature. She has been using it for a few years to catalog her library. Now that I think about it, it's proabaly time for me to upgrade to the latest ver for her. Thanks, Scott Phelan Randy Kramer wrote: > (1) Donation of Linux Books to MakeLehighValley > > When Dann Washko left Bethlehem, he gave away a lot of his computer > books. I took most of them with the intention of starting a library > for the lvlug and the Linux sig of that other local computer users > group. > > That never really came to fruition, so I've decided to donate most of > those books to the MakeLehighValley organization that is forming. > (I've tried to write to Dann just to make sure he has no objection--I > sent an email to dann at thelinuxlink.net this weekend.) > > (2) Scanner for ISBN Bar Codes > > Before I actually turn the books over, I'd like to make a list of them > to put on WikiLearn or elsewhere on the Internet. Does anyone here > have access to one of those (portable) bar code scanners that can read > the ISBN codes on (modern) books? > > I'd like to find one to borrow, or find someone that's willing to scan > in about 3 cartons of books. > > I also don't know much about them--I presume that to get the actual book > information (like author, title, ...), there is another program > involved that has to access the Internet? > > If I don't get anywhere here, I'll go to the next library book sale > (Bethlehem has one in late June), and find and talk to one of the > people using a scanner like that. > > Randy Kramer > _______________________________________________ > Lvlug mailing list > Lvlug at thelinuxlink.net > https://www.thelinuxlink.net/mailman/listinfo/lvlug > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5188 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: From rhkramer at gmail.com Thu May 19 17:36:39 2011 From: rhkramer at gmail.com (Randy Kramer) Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 17:36:39 -0400 Subject: [Lvlug] =?utf-8?q?=281=29_Donation_of_=28Dann_Washko=27s=29_Linux?= =?utf-8?q?_Books_to=09MakeLehighValley_=282=29_Scanner_for_ISBN_Ba?= =?utf-8?q?r_Codes?= In-Reply-To: <4DD288AE.2070709@fivestarassoc.com> References: <201105170958.41632.rhkramer@gmail.com> <4DD288AE.2070709@fivestarassoc.com> Message-ID: <201105191736.39605.rhkramer@gmail.com> Scott, Thanks very much! Looks like a little more than I had in mind at the moment. I didn't find a Debian package, so I haven't tried it. ;-) Randy Kramer On Tuesday 17 May 2011 10:39:42 am Scott Phelan wrote: > Look at Open Media Collectors Database (OpenDb) > My wife uses it for her book / video / CD collection. > It's a PHP website app that can be set up on pretty much any server. > It has book lookup through Amazon and others. > Puts everything in a MySQl database. > Has multi user login controls. > Has a lend / borrow feature. > She has been using it for a few years to catalog her library. > Now that I think about it, it's proabaly time for me to upgrade to > the latest ver for her.