You get clear audible and visual feedback on a successful scan, so you don't have to glance at your computer to see if the code made it over. The iPhone's camera is plenty accurate for scanning, and the Barry app supports older hardware down to the iPhone 3GS and the fourth-gen iPod touch. This sounds a bit Rube Goldberg, but in practice it works extremely well. (Bruji's $3.99 Pocketpedia can do a similar trick, but only with the company's own desktop apps.) Assuming your catalog app has a quick entry or multiple entry mode (all the ones listed above do), you can blithely scan away as you climb the ladders/dig in the boxes/roam the stacks, and have all the cataloging done by the time you get back to your desk. If both the iPhone and the computer are on the same WiFi network, your scans from Buddy instantly appear in the active text field of the foreground app, just as if you had typed the ISBN on the keyboard. The magic is in the fourth sharing mode for scans: Barry cleverly pairs with a buddy application running on your Mac or PC. You can keep a running list of codes locally in Barry, and share them out via email, text message or iTunes download. The core functionality for scanning codes in Barry is built atop the RedLaser SDK, so it scans quickly and accurately.
Why not scan barcodes with your iPhone, and use them to populate your desktop catalog app? That's where the special talents of CLZ Barry ($7.99 for iPhone, also for Android) come into play.ĬLZ Barry, made by the same folks behind the Book Collector and other media database apps, is a barcode scanning app with a twist.
Not now Turn on Turned on Turn onīut you've already got a powerful camera attached to your touch and voice-activated pocket computer. You can disable notifications at any time in your settings menu. One well-known Mac app lets you scan UPC barcodes with your Mac's iSight camera alone. Getting serious about cataloging might prompt you to consider a Bluetooth hardware barcode scanner like the US$149 Intelliscanner mini, which can be used with its own bundled media database or with powerful software tools like Readerware, Book Collector or Bookpedia. Capturing that ISBN may be a manual process for older titles, but for anything published in the last few decades there's almost certainly a UPC or EAN barcode on the cover with the ISBN encoded in it. Learn more about the complete Readerware system for cataloging your books, music and videos by visiting our web site.Did you have a New Year's resolution to organize your book collection (again)? It's definitely on the list in our household, but it's a daunting job we have thousands of books (literally and literarily) scattered across many shelves, basement boxes and a home office, plus another whole library at my wife's office in desperate need of some database love.Ī bit of luck, though: bibliophiles have a leg up on most other varieties of packrat, as almost all modern books have an ISBN, a number that purports to uniquely identify them. Support for multiple platforms, Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Standalone or client/server versions available. Simple searching, want list, printing, global search and replace, import/export and more. Multiple views, choose from table, tree and thumbnail views.
Integrated loan tracker, check items in and out, query/print items on loan and over due. Features include:Īuto-Catalog, enter the ISBN or scan the barcode, the book is cataloged. Readerware is used by collectors, sellers, many small libraries, schools, churches etc. Readerware on your desktop is a complete solution for cataloging and managing your library.
Use the camera on your device as a barcode scanner with Readerware auto-catalog on your desktop. You know what you have and what you are looking for. The iOS version lets you easily sync your database to your device and take it with you when you visit your favorite brick and mortar stores. Readerware then does the rest, building your database for you. Have a large collection? Readerware auto-catalog lets you feed in a list of ISBNs or barcode scans. The easiest, fastest way to catalog your library, nothing else comes close. Readerware (Books) is not a standalone app, it works with Readerware on your desktop, (Windows, Mac OS X & Linux).
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