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		akronim on Jan 9, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no int... You need the ISBN, but it's not as simple as scan it and you're done. Delicious Library might do what you want?

jgrahamc on Jan 9, 2009 [–]

I have a hand scanner for barcodes that works fine with Amazon.com. It looks like a keyboard to my PC and so when I scan a barcode it simply 'types' the ISBN into the appropriate box on Amazon.

akronim on Jan 9, 2009 | [–]

Delicious Library does it with the camera in the mac, you just hold up the book.

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