[johnwhelan]

I'm not sure if I should admit it here but I read both ebooks and real books and to keep track of what I have I use Calibre adding real books by using the ISBN to create a record.

It's useful as I can see more easily which authors I like and more importantly which books I already have or have rejected.

These days bar code scanners have come down in price enormously and my latest toy is a bar code scanner that plugs into the USB port and returns the ISBN code followed by a carriage return. Saves me pulling out the reading glasses or magnifying glass to read the ISBN number. On many books this works fine but some books have a UPC code rather than an ISBN code.

Is there a way to detect if its an ISBN code or UPC then get the author title stuff in from the UPC code?

Thanks John