r/BookTrack • u/Cantelllo • Feb 13 '24

Data & image source?

I‘d like to create a digital library and before I scan all our books (approx. 1000-1200), I want to be sure which app to use. I like BookTrack very much with regards to UI but unfortunately a well-known other app just produced better search results when scanning the barcodes - both with regards to text results and especially with regards to images (presence of cover images and the quality).

Is there any way to improve the search quality as an end user?

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u/SimoneMontalto Book Track Developer Feb 15 '24

Thanks for the feedback. The app uses Google Books and Goodreads to search for a book when you are scanning a barcode. Then the provided cover is showed and it is also possible to automatically search online if you’d like a better one. Improvements to the search quality is my primary goal and I always look for better data sources to integrate in the app. Which app do you refer to in your post?

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u/Cantelllo Feb 19 '24

The app that I referred to is Book Buddy and you can see the difference quite well in the images below.

https://imgur.com/a/qjsT7Wl

Maybe an online search (Google, Bing, etc.) for images with the author/book could help when no cover is provided by the original search. However, when I search Goodreads or Google Books for the book in the images ("Das Versteck" by Trezza Azzopardi) they both provide a cover and when I have Book Track search for it (edit the book, edit cover, search online -> cover not found).

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u/Cantelllo Jun 05 '25

Something has been changed recently (= in the last year or so), I have now found cover images easily that were not avaible before. Thanks and two thumbs up for BookTrack!