I was thinking of making an application (desktop or Android) to help manage the books I have. One that can scan ISBN bar codes, then automatically fetch the details about each book from the Internet, plus allow for manual entries if the details cannot be found.
While doing a bit of background research into the tools for creating such a program, I instead found some Android apps that can already do this. A more promising one is Book Catalogue, which seems to be able to fulfill my needs. Although it seems to lack Japanese and Chinese support, which is a downside since I have books in English, Chinese, and Japanese. Still, will be giving it a try.
What attracts me is the project is actually open source. You can get the source code here from GitHub. Which means I can try tweaking it to query Japanese and Chinese sources if I can find the appropriate APIs. But that is something I will be putting off for a while. First, let me try the app... 😅
While doing a bit of background research into the tools for creating such a program, I instead found some Android apps that can already do this. A more promising one is Book Catalogue, which seems to be able to fulfill my needs. Although it seems to lack Japanese and Chinese support, which is a downside since I have books in English, Chinese, and Japanese. Still, will be giving it a try.
What attracts me is the project is actually open source. You can get the source code here from GitHub. Which means I can try tweaking it to query Japanese and Chinese sources if I can find the appropriate APIs. But that is something I will be putting off for a while. First, let me try the app... 😅
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