RE: Barcode scanners

["Ben McCormack" <ben.mccormack@xxxxxxx>]

I have to catalogue over 7000 books.

Is there anywhere of matching up the ISBN number on the back with an
online database?

Ben


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 27 February 2002 11:57
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Barcode scanners


In case you end up doing it manually, then one key piece of advice:

2 people (one reading authornames/titles, one typing) is about 3/4 times
as fast as one person alternating between holding books and holding
keyboard... This is based on empirical testing of productivity in the
Harrison household over a large sample size ;-)

Mark Harrison
Head of Systems, eKingfisher

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-----Original Message-----
From: James, Daniel [mailto:daniel.james@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 27 February 2002 11:47
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Barcode scanners


Not yet Mark, sorry.

Jan has rooms full of books, so it would be one hell of a manual task,
Seeing the price of this barcode scanner triggered my thinking of seeing
what could be done, as I would like them catalogued for insurance
purposes, and she would like them catalogued to make sure she doesn't
buy any duplicates :-)

Daniel

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 27 February 2002 11:49
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Barcode scanners


Daniel,

Does this mean you have a reliable way to do BarCode -> Book details
coversion?

If so, have you got details.

I inputted the book details by hand, because I was ending up buying too
many duplicates. To be fair, I've only done the fiction so far, but
that's just over 2,200...


Mark Harrison
Head of Systems, eKingfisher

-----Original Message-----
From: James, Daniel [mailto:daniel.james@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 27 February 2002 10:55
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Barcode scanners


>I've seen people suggest using these for "inventory control"
of their
food cupboards in the kitchen but what about things like
>cheese from the Deli counter where you have two problems:

>1) The barcode contains the price so changes each time you purchase
another batch.

>2) You don't take it out and eat the whole thing in one go. (Well,
maybe I do but that's just me.)

I was more thinking about the hundreds of books we have..... and CDs -
reading the barcodes into a dB

Food *would* be a nightmare, and would take some time to set up, keeping
track of all the barcodes!! and as you say what about the specials....

Daniel



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