I�ve got a stub app going, and I thank Amazon for their Web Services. They have made it very easy for me to pull book information.
I said I would post the requirements� well here is a checklist of features that I am starting from:
- Ability to search for a book by ISBN
- Ability to associate a book by series
- Ability to link book to it’s prequel
- Ability to link book to multiple prequel’s
- Ability to loan books to a person/place
- Ability to enter due date
- Ability to show overdue books
- Ability to associate a book to multiple authors
- Ability to associate a book to a category
- Ability to associate a book to multiple categories
- Ability to associate books to tags
- e.g. Read by Jamie, Owned by Amy, Wanted by John
- Ability to capture the following information about a book
- Title
- Author
- Genre
- Format
- Rating
- Series
- Publisher
- Published Date
- Acquired Date
- ISBN
- Note
- Ability to add custom attributes to a book
- Ability to filter books
- Author or Authors
- Genre or Genres
- Series
- Format
- Loaned
- Ratings
- Tags
- Categories
- Ability to view image of book
- Ability to enter book
- Manually
- By Barcode reader
- By ISBN search
- Ability to bulk import
- From xml
- From dsv
- From xls
- Ability to export
- From xml
- From dsv
- From xls