Bibliotheca Shelf photos in, a catalog of what is and isn't digital out
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Easy digital 0% 0 of 0 titles
Paper-locked 0% Need scanning to go digital
Public domain 0 Out of US copyright
Out of print 0 Latest edition 15+ years old
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Add shelf photos

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Drop shelf photos here, or choose files

JPG, PNG or WEBP. Several at once is fine.

A numbered shelf tag counts up with each photo: Shelf 1, Shelf 2…

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Gemini API key

Reading shelf photos needs a Google Gemini key. It stays in this browser and is sent only to Google.

Without a key, the demo shelf still works.

Book record

Category

Title

Author

No shelf photo for this record
Shelf: unassigned
Publisher
Unknown
Year
n.d.
ISBN
N/A
Editors / translators
None
First published
Unknown
Pages
Unknown
Copyright (US)
Unknown
Print status
Unknown
Digital copies
Unknown

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Export the catalog

Downloads a file. Shelf photos are not included.

Import from LibraryThing

In LibraryThing, choose More, then Import/Export, then export as tab-delimited text or JSON. Books already in the catalog are merged, not duplicated.

Scan ISBN barcodes

Hold each book's back-cover barcode in view. Every new ISBN is looked up and added.

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Send to a vector store

Each book becomes a document (title, people, dates, subjects, description), embedded with Gemini and upserted. Re-sending updates the same points.

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