[Alexandria-list] Barcode scanner report

[John Stoffel]

Hi all,

Just found out about Alexandria and I'm already very impressed with
what is offers.  Just a quick note that it does support my Symbol
Technologies cordless barcode scanner quite well.  This model sits on
the PS/2 keyboard port and inserts ASCII characters.  Once I get it to
send the Barcode plus an appended return, life will be good.

This leads to a couple of wish list items:

- Allow bulk adds of books.  With the scanner, I can just go through a
  bunch of them quickly, but having to hit Alt+N all the time for each
  new one gets to be a drag.  I'd love a 'add multiple' button so I
  can just scan in barcodes without waiting.

- The next one is to allow ISBN lookups to happen in the background.
  As I scan items in, just start looking them up, but don't wait too
  much and keep going.

  Especially with some of my older books which aren't on amazon since
  they're not available anymore, it's a pain to have to stop each
  time.  

- Allow feed back to be audible, instead of with popups and dialogs.
  A nice cheery beep for a good scan, and "blah" beep for a failure of
  some sort.  Again, to make it easy to scan in stuff quickly.  I'll
  go back later and do the data cleanup.


Thanks again for a great tool, I can't wait to see how it gets better!
John