Tellico

Importing from Amazon with Bookcase

Astronomers speak of First Light, the moment when the telescope receives the first photons for an image. Well, Bookcase had her first light last night, so to speak. I’ve got a working import from Amazon.com, and I was able to search for a book, and add it to my collection, complete with cover image!

Just like with First Light, there’s still quite a bit of tweaking to do. I’m not completely happy with my interface to the Internet Search. Right now it looks like this:

And it’s not efficient at downloading stuff. And there’s no error handling. And no configuration. But, it works!