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Bookpedia finally gets some love on TUAW, The Unofficial Apple Weblog:

http://www.tuaw.com/2006/05/11/bookpedia/

I chimed in as comment #13 with my thoughts.

Thanks. Unfortunately, I have a modified (neutered) CueCat, so I don't see the scrambled numbers first I didn't even realize that the pedias worked with the unmodified versions.

Oh, well. I was afraid it might not be possible to do. At least the unmodified CueCats can beep in the new release.

You can consider that question from my last posting as more of a feature request than a support issue. I pulled my tab-delimited text file into Excel, converted the ISBNs to text (trial-and-error showed I had to keep the all-important leading zeros), used the Replace in there to yank out the dashes ...

I figured out the problem--I had the ISBNs in there with dashes, as in "0-679-74365-0". When I enter that in the "Add Book" window, Bookpedia removes them, and does a successful search. But If I try "Get Advanced Info", the dashes must screw it up. I know this because i...

I did try the "Get Advanced Info". It gives me the status bar that it's checking Amazon US, and then it finishes, and no fields have been changed. I also re-imported mapping ISBN over to ASIN, and "Get Advanced Info" still did not work. By the way, if I type any of these ISBN num...

I've got a database of partial, manually-entered information that includes ISBNs. I imported the database as tab-delmited text as a collection, bringing over just the ISBNs and a few custom fields, but not the basics like title, author, etc. I'd like to have Bookpedia pull those from Amazon. I can't...

I just got a CueCat today ($13 with shipping, cuecats.com if you don't want to deal with Ebay) and was once again blown away at how great this software is! First time I scanned something in DVDpedia, and a few seconds later, up comes the full information! Anyway, this is a totally frivolous request ...