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Yeah exactly, what would be awesome is an app that lets you take a picture of your book shelf and captures every book title (and author if possible)

And then after that step it could maybe build a small library with a nice, compact ui automatically

Most books are in x39.50 catalogs, I have koha at home, using the British Library, Library of Congress, National Libraries of Scotland and France, and Oxford, it finds 90% of my books, barcode scan a shelf, import, add missing books

I got a barcode scanner and wrote a script to look them up in Open Library. Most of my books are found, but I don't have much weird/old stuff without barcodes. I found the process of scanning quite enjoyable tbh.

I did the same thing, though I used libib for the lookup