BookStuff

Books Books Books. Z39.50, thokbook, amazon, delicious library, and now http://www.librarything.com Some tools are documented here.


bookstuff: Thu Dec 14 01:06:00 2006

Thu Dec 14 01:06:00 2006

Tried uploading Delicious Library's xml file directly to library thing. Seems like it was a little too aggressive in that I got 900+ books, many of which I clearly don't own; I think it doesn't know about the recommendations field. But that's what cElementTree is for...

Ah, much better: "LibraryThing found 161 unique ISBNs. 138 of them are new (not already in your library)." (I entered a small pile of books by looking around the room, and then clicking through suggestions and authors and going "oh, I have that one" :-)

delicious_asin.py is the (entirely trivial) extractor.