eleybourn/Book-Catalogue — Issue #287: Batch Scanning?
Author: Grunthos
Created: 2012-01-24 08:10:31+00:00
State: open

I know its been raised in user comments, but I could not find an issue. With background processing in place, it becomes easier to handle forground scanning and background lookups.

The question is, how should it work?

This is how I imaging it working:

- start scanner
- scan a book.
- If ISBN is valid, make a 'good' beep, add it to queue, return to scanner
- if ISBN is bad, make a "bad" beep, show a toast message, resume scanning
- when user returns from scanner present them with a list of queued books.

The list will show:

- if found, ISBN, Cover, Title, Author

Clicking on a 'found' item in list will take them to the add screen
Clicking on a 'not found' item will take them to the ISBN entry screen?

The process really breaks down with the "not found" items and with "misfound". How do thy know which physical book was the failure? Or worse, which phsyical book corresponds to the incorrectly found "Mrs Smiths Cookbook for Vegan Dogs"?

This is why I have never been in a hurry to batch scan. But if anyone out there is passionate about it, now is the time to describe how it whould work!