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Re:Shelfie Is Shazam for Your Bookshelf by tzs on Friday September 18, 2015 @02:50PM (#10241283)
I'd like to see them provide options for doing other interesting things with the books they identify besides finding e-book versions of them.

For instance, I'd love something that would let me photograph my bookshelves and then it mails me a list of my books with LOC or Dewey numbers attached. I started making labels with LOC numbers for me books to make it easier to file them, but it was a pain in the ass to look up the numbers.

Re:Shelfie Is Shazam for Your Bookshelf by BitLit on Friday September 18, 2015 @04:27PM (#10241858)
Cool, idea... what if we made a reverse lookup, so you could search in the app for the book and we could show you the picture of your shelf with the book highlighted. Thoughts?
Re:Shelfie Is Shazam for Your Bookshelf by tzs on Friday September 18, 2015 @07:57PM (#10242728)
That would be a pretty cool app, at least for people who have a lot of books.

A couple of times I've resorted to taking photos of my books when I just could not find one, so that I could look in the photos on my computer (where I can enlarge them and do not have to bend over uncomfortably to see the lower shelves) to find where the book was shelved.

Re:Shelfie Is Shazam for Your Bookshelf by BitLit on Friday September 18, 2015 @09:46PM (#10242990)
Cool! That's be a super easy feature for us to add. We're on it.