[Web4lib] Amazon ratings

[Cab Vinton]

Little if any code involved in what I originally proposed.

The price lookup app leaves out the product rating part of what I'm
looking for. Amazon has a mobile phone app, but I believe it involves
taking a picture of each item & waiting for a Mechanical Turk drone to
identity it.

Having a database of items provides a whole host of advantages --
inventory, marketing, volunteers do data entry/ librarians scan for
"keepers", etc., etc.

Cab Vinton, Director
Sanbornton Public Library
Sanbornton, NH

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Roy Tennant<tennantr at oclc.org> wrote:
> Why wouldn't you just use a mobile phone app like ShopSavvy?:
>
> <http://www.biggu.com/>
>
> To take a picture of the barcode and have it return prices for you? I've
> seen teams of people with Blackberry's do this at library book sales, to
> scoop up the bargains for resale (although I'm not sure what app they were
> using).
>
> My rule is to never write code when something else will do.
> Roy