Comments on: Search your bookshelf with a $65 barcode scanner

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 14:39:03 +0000

Getting books onto the shelves in “My Library” is pretty easy. However, ratings are pretty clumsy. To rate, you have to click on “Review” and save it. Then to see the rating, you have to click on “Edit review”. That’s crazy. If I want to see all my 5-star books .. well, I can’t. Or at least I don’t see it.

By: Jack Smith

Jack Smith — Mon, 23 May 2011 08:35:22 +0000

Now scanning can be done by smart phones so there is any need to by bar code scanner. The features of this product is very useful because we can now determine easily which book we have read or which book to suggest our friends.

By: Al O'Brien

Al O'Brien — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:22:43 +0000

Does the “my library” function at Google still store a users book list. I own two or three thousand books and need the capability to scan the ISBN numbers and have the information stored in an accessible database. I found you post on Google search but could not find the function on Google books.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:21:52 +0000

Re: Scanning on Android phones, what if you use the BarcodeScanner app (Barcode Scanner v3.4) – use the bulk scanning method (in Settings menu), then export/e-mail yourself the history list (History > Send History) and then import that list into whatever software you’re using? It would be nice to have a “library” app on the phone, too.

By: Garen Torikian

Garen Torikian — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:34:36 +0000

You can check out my Android app, http://www.shelvesforandroid.com , which accomplishes some of what the comments here are asking.

By: Larry Boyd

Larry Boyd — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:54:27 +0000

I was curious to know if this scanning feature would give me the current value of books in my library. I have a few books in my library that i would like to sell and some of which I am sure they have a high value but I would look like to be able to scan them and be able to find the value on of them if possible. Is this possible to do?

By: TJay

TJay — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:52:14 +0000

This would be a great app to create a record of a cd or dvd collection. Just scan in the bardcode, create the list and sent to a pc via email.. or even better, a record keeping wesite.

By: DE. Utomo

DE. Utomo — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:05:43 +0000

This is awesome ! I can search the text of book I want in my private library just by scanning bar codes? Thanks for the pos Matt!

By: Carlos

Carlos — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:44:37 +0000

“The aim of Google Books is to help you discover books and learn where to buy or borrow them, not read them online from start to finish.”

It would be super awesome if we could log onto Amazon, Abebooks, ebay, etc and have them send you folks a list of books that we’ve purchased from them. If we can prove that we’ve purchased the books then there’s no reason why we shouldn’t have full access to those books in our Google Books library. Well…unless we resold them or gave them away…which people would be more inclined to do…which would violate copyright.

So it’s possible to practically prove that we’ve purchased a book (at least from major online book stores), but impossible to practically prove that we currently own that book. Darn it. I rarely reread novels but it would be really helpful for reference books that I frequently need to reference.

By: Jim Brock

Jim Brock — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:33:50 +0000

This is great! We’re creating a small library for a college prep school in Santa Cruz, and are using a bar code scanner to get all of our books online through Google Books. The entire school will be able to search our library, and we can export the titles to make check-out cards.

BUT after 90 minutes of scanning and checking, we’re getting throttled because they think we’re using automated queries.

Can you help?

Thanks!