Utility Mill

I have a terrible memory for books I've read. So I thought I would start tracking them. But I didn't want to go through years of books and type in all the titles and other information. So instead I used a barcode scanner to scan all the books into this utility, and it automatically gives me all the details, which is a great starting point for my tracking system.

This utility uses the Amazon Associate Web Service and the brilliant pyAWS library.

Note that a requirement of using Amazon associate web services is that it can only be used primarily to drive traffic back to Amazon's web sites or sales of Amazon products and services. Thus in that spirit I recommend you guys some of the books you input, or buy one of these great books:

• Learning Python, 3rd Edition
• Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications

Useful Resources for Hacking on This Utility

• pyaws-0.2.0 API docs
• The official Amazon E-Commerce Service API

TODO

• Mediawiki output format, with thumbnails of books