Plans for the weekend: I'm going to scan the local anarchist bookshop's entire collection with a barcode reader, so they finally get an inventory. I'll probably use my little program which also checks whether a book is needed by the #InternetArchive. (Still works without changes 5 years later!)

https://framagit.org/nemobis/bots/-/blob/master/ia-wishlist-isbnreader.py

3300 books on sale at @mustankaninkolo@pixelfed.social are now listed at @mustankaninkolo@kirja.casa:
https://kirja.casa/user/mustankaninkolo/books/mkk-956

It took us about 10 person-hours to scan barcodes on some 4000 books, yielding 3400 unique ISBNs. There were probably another 500-1000 books with ISBN but no barcode, and 2000 books without ISBN. These can be handled at a later stage.

Thanks @ileoo for writing the #Finna integration for #Bookwyrm! Without it, most books would not have been found.

#Helsinki #bookshops

Also, I've found my new arch-enemy: book cover designs where the ISBN barcode is printed in green or white (or anything other than black on white really).