This script gets book details from the amazon web-service and convert them in the format used by tellico.
It has the following enhancements with respect to the amazon data source provided by Tellico:
- Derive subtitle and series name from the book title. It assumes the following title format:
TITLE[: SUBTITLE] [(SERIES)]
where [...] denotes an optional component.
- Adds the amazon "average customer review", the number of reviews, and the sales rank as custom fields, useful to know the popularity of the book.
- Displays the amazon rating with the same 'stars' pictures used in the site. The stars are displayed with an opacity of 25%, 50%, 75% or 100% depending on the number of reviews. This gives a good visual feedback on both the popularity and rating of the book. The opacity is computed as follows:
thank you, Robby! I was developing my own bookshelf manager program, with this handy feature (at least for me), but then I discovered Tellico and tried to "merge" my features in it. This is the result!
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Embedding the images is a great idea. Your screenshot shows it off well.
thank you, Robby! I was developing my own bookshelf manager program, with this handy feature (at least for me), but then I discovered Tellico and tried to "merge" my features in it. This is the result!