Comments on: Google Books android script

By: Mac

Mac — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:26:19 +0000

An ISBN is not always an integer, but may have an “X” as a check “digit” in last place (at least if it’s an ISBN-10). Therefore
isbn = int(result['extras']['SCAN_RESULT'])
is wrong. You should use a string here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:25:19 +0000

@Phyllis: This is the correct behaviour. The script is written such that when you select ‘upload’ the books that you’ve scanned are added to Google Books and the list is cleaned out; returning you to the scripts initial state. The script only exits when you select ‘Exit’. If you want it to exit after uploading add ‘i = False’ after ‘service.queue = {}’ in the while loop at the bottom of the script.

@Ilan: There are various versions of the get_by_barcode() function around on the sl4a site, I basically chose one that worked with the barcode scanner I have installed…

As for the categories, I agree about the adding to favourites not really being desirable but unfortunately I don’t know of a way of setting categories. There may be a way of doing it using the GBooks concept of a shelf but this isn’t implemented at a high level in the sl4a gbooks api layer; when I looked into it I didn’t have the time to implement it myself.

By: Phyllis

Phyllis — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 05:16:45 +0000

Thanks for the script.
The dialog box, “Another?” keeps coming back up when I press “upload.” Any idea why?
Thanks again.

By: Ilan

Ilan — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:48:49 +0000

This did not work for me,
in def get_by_barcode(self):

if result is not True:
return(False)

was always returning false, even (and I did not have any other case) when it found the book, so I removed it, and the code started working.

a question: is there a way to select to which category the books will be added? I have some book shelfs and there are some by default.

It always adds to favorites and thats not quite right for me.
Thanks

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:31:01 +0000

Argon0,

I’m afraid I don’t have time to port this to produce a proper app; if I did I would have already done so .

As I state in the post, I consider the code to be in public domain, so if it is useful please feel free to take it as your own.

Craig

By: Argon0

Argon0 — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:00:34 +0000

Have you published, or thought to publish, this as an app?

At the moment I am looking for an app to be a front end to Google Books on my Android, to enter stuff (as your script seems to do) and to retrieve stuff.

Ideally to create a catalogue on my Android which syncs with my Google Books Library…

Argon0