Camera-based ISBN scanning quickly captures book data using your phone
Directly opens LibraryThing's add-book page in your browser after a scan
Lightweight download with a compact APK size
Free-to-use model with no upfront cost
Relies on the external Barcode Scanner app for ISBN reading (no built-in scanner)
No built-in support for QR codes or broader barcode formats beyond ISBN in the provided data
Not ranked in any top lists, which may affect discoverability
About LibraryThingScanner
LibraryThingScanner was a tools app developed by Owlfish. It was removed from Google Play May 25, 2018 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
LibraryThingScanner had been downloaded 22 thousand times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
LibraryThingScanner was rated 3.13 out of 5 stars, based on 130 ratings.
App Information
LibraryThingScanner was free to download. The APK download size was 31.82 kB. The last available version was 1.4. The last update was on August 19, 2010.
Technical Requirements
LibraryThingScanner required Android 1.6+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Unrated Maturity. The app had been available on Google Play August 2010.
Description
Add books to LibraryThing quickly using your phone camera.
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★★★★★
Works great. Exiting the browser after adding a book takes you back to scan another book.
★★★★★
It works! Does exactly what it says on the tin. Read the instructions! Provides a simple interface to the Librarything web UI. Saved me a lot of time and effort. Only gripe is that the camera focus sometimes struggles, but moving the phone up and down a bit usually solves it. (Galaxy Tab P1000).
★★★★★
A great help! This app in combination with my scanner and browser let me enter roughly a book a minute (take book from shelf, scan code, search,select, replace book). Only downside is the power consumption. Phone charge was 70% when I started an 12% when I finished 90 minutes later. But that's not really the app's fault since it's just being a go-between the camera/scanner and browser.
★★★★★
Works very well for new books, and okay for old ones. A great time-saver.
★★☆☆☆
Very slow process. It does what I need it to do, in that it finds the DDS number by scanning the barcode. Unfortunately the process requires so many steps and the Library Thing website is so mobiles unfriendly that it's practically unusable as a tool for organising books.
★★☆☆☆
Works less than half the time This app is kind of useless--the scanner almost never focuses on the barcode (unlike the barcode scanner built into Goodreads). When it does scan, the app isn't well integrated with Librarything anyway.
★★☆☆☆
1-Doesn`t allow to choose sources... so, I can`t add any of my japanese books, 2- Doesn`t allow bulk ISBN Scan. just one by one. 3- Doesn`t save scanned ISBNs to file (txt, etc) 4- LT was updated recently so that bulk import can search in all sources at once.. but this feature isn`t available in this app yet.. it searches in a specific source (may be library of congress or amazon uk??) that is sueful only for english books!
★★☆☆☆
No point to this. Just use the custom url feature in your barcode scanner.
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