Break out the old CueCat

As you might have guessed by now, Jarkko and I have a rather large accumulation of books/treeware. In Ex Libris , there is a part titled "Marrying Libraries" where the author explains that after years of marriage and children that they were possibly ready to finally merge their libraries :) Over a year ago I purchased a bar code scanner to use the ISBN barcodes on each book in conjunction with Perl to get the book info off of Amazon.com or bn.com and shove it all into a db.

Today I dusted off my little bar code wand as there is a new bit of software, long available for windows, now available for Mac OSX users, Readerware. You just install the software, scan your bar codes, run the autocatalog and there it is. You can customise it and export it to your palm as well. I guess I know what I'll be doing all weekend :)

18 Jan 2002 at 14:20, Helsinki