Keeping a Catalogue of Movies/Games/Books I Own
I seem to have this problem where I can never recall what movies I already own or don’t own when I’m in the mood to buy a new one (which isn’t very often lately). Today it hit me that I should have an online database of movies I already own (it could also contain books and video games – pretty much anything with a bar code I could use). What I want is to be able to take a picture of the bar code and have it automatically look-up the item for me, then if I already own the item, it could tell me that, or if I don’t it could give me the choice to put the item into the database (to easily add things as I get them). I think it would be really interesting to look into how to deal with bar codes programmatically and also this would be a really handy application for me. I could also work out different tags and categories, say for keeping track of movies Dad owns or books Mom owns or has read already.
