Does Tellico support adding books with barcode scanner?

[Ian McCulloch]

I use a standard barcode scanner with Tellico, searching Google Book Search
by ISBN. It works a treat 99% of the time. The other 1% are oddities that
can't be found on Google Books by any other means.

Ian

On Sun, 24 Nov 2024 at 17:54, Robby Stephenson <robby at periapsis.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Nov 24, 2024 at 11:22 AM Sven Linux <sven2bangkok at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I read through the "About Telllico" bit on the website and looked at a
>> couple changelogs but it is still unclear to me if I can use a barcode
>> scanner to add books into Tellico?
>> I was looking at buying a USB wireless barcode scanner to start
>> cataloging my huge book collection.
>>
>
> Most scanners work by acting as a keyboard, of sorts. So in the search
> dialog, you can scan the books to add by ISBN (or UPC/EAN), depending on
> which data source you'll be using.
>
> Robby
>
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