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goge · 03-23-2015, 02:09 PM

Hello,

There must be many that have a large collection of paper books they would like to manage with calibre, I know I do.

I'm was hoping I could use my phone as an isbn scanner and scan the books in right from the bookshelves, but it seems I would need to bring the books to a computer and type them in by hand or buy a usb scanner.

I looked into the REST api but it only has endpoints to get content out.
I then looked into the smart device driver. I cannot seem to find a message to add from isbn, only create / upload from a file.

The plan is to make a very simple web app that uses https://github.com/EddieLa/JOB to get the isbn and send it through to Calibre.

To do that the best option would be a RESTful endpoint to send the isbn number to, if that's not possible a tcp connection could be used as well. I am willing to build out both the app and endpoint I just don't know where to look for the "Add from isbn" code and what the community would rather have in terms of a restful endpoint or adding to the smart device driver.

Thanks!

03-23-2015, 02:09 PM	#1
goge Member Posts: 16 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2015 Device: android phone	mobile add from isbn Hello, There must be many that have a large collection of paper books they would like to manage with calibre, I know I do. I'm was hoping I could use my phone as an isbn scanner and scan the books in right from the bookshelves, but it seems I would need to bring the books to a computer and type them in by hand or buy a usb scanner. I looked into the REST api but it only has endpoints to get content out. I then looked into the smart device driver. I cannot seem to find a message to add from isbn, only create / upload from a file. The plan is to make a very simple web app that uses https://github.com/EddieLa/JOB to get the isbn and send it through to Calibre. To do that the best option would be a RESTful endpoint to send the isbn number to, if that's not possible a tcp connection could be used as well. I am willing to build out both the app and endpoint I just don't know where to look for the "Add from isbn" code and what the community would rather have in terms of a restful endpoint or adding to the smart device driver. Thanks!