11:37 pm - scanning books
I've been wanting to join Library Thing, but didn't feel like manually entering scores of books. But I have an Android G1, which comes with a camera and a barcode scanner, and LT imports ISBNs! Only, the scanner application doesn't record its results anywhere(?), so the information isn't readily available.
So: a few hours of finally learning how to program this thing*, and I have a tool that integrates with the scanner (yay Intents!), keeps scanning continuously, and writes the results to an sqlite database, which you can then ship off via email (yay Intents) to yourself and copy-paste to Library Thing.
Totally straightforward, sure, but fun and hopefully useful to others as it was to me. I'll polish this up a bit before releasing it.
* Ugh, hardy only has Eclipse 3.2, which is no longer supported by the ADT; and the ADT took three hours to install. Other people didn't have this problem though, so it may have been bad luck.
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