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Nadia

Giving users the ability to scan the barcode on their books to add them to their StoryGraph library.

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aftereliza
Jan 29, 2024

Not sure if this is still relevant, but would it be possible to have the barcode scanner automatically add the book to a tag, owned books and a shelf? If we were in the right location in the app?

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Nadia
Jan 30, 2024

aftereliza Not the right place, but we will definitely offer the scanner in more places in the future! Double check if there's a post for your specific case in general and if not, add it!

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mycatmycatandme
Dec 31, 2023

In case it’s helpful for anyone else: I wasn’t getting prompted to allow camera access, nothing happened when I clicked on the barcode symbol, but it’s working now that I manually allowed camera access in my phone settings. If it’s not working for you, check the phone settings for the app!

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Nadia
Jan 1, 2024

mycatmycatandme Yeah, we've had a few people report this. It should prompt you within the app but it isn't for everyone. Thank you for posting this.

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emvdw
Dec 25, 2023

So excited about the new feature!! Just wanted to let you know that it is not working for me 😔 (android app, version 1.12) . I can see the icon in the search bar, but nothing happens when I press it.

Same for when I go to the 'owned books' section and try to add a book there: nothing happens. The button does turn blue, to indicate it's been clicked, but the camera doesn't open...

At first I thought I might not have given the app the correct permissions, but when I check my settings it says 'no authorisations required' and can't seem to add any permissions.

Oh and Merry Christmas btw!

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Nadia
Dec 26, 2023

emvdw You need to be on version 1.13! :-D

(And Merry Christmas and Happy New Year too!)

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emvdw
Dec 26, 2023

Nadia haha! I updated and of course it's working now, yay!

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Nadia
Dec 26, 2023

emvdw Yay!!

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leigh9192
Dec 24, 2023

I just tried to add two of my books and the scanner did not pick up the isbn number correctly multiple times. both books are in the system when I manually typed in the isbn

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Nadia
Dec 25, 2023

leigh9192 Hello! I've recently pushed an update to improve the scanner configuration, which should help. Also, it looks like the book does need to be quite close to the camera!

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Nadia
Dec 24, 2023
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Be sure to update to the latest version of your app to try it!

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edulaia
Dec 24, 2023

Nadia yey, and congrats!!

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sassmistress
Dec 24, 2023

Nadia It's everything I wanted for Christmas! ❤️

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ttwyman
Dec 24, 2023

Nadia not sure if it's just me or other android users as well but I've tried scanning 3 barcodes and the camera doesn't seem to focus, it stays blurry and isn't able to scan.

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Nadia
Dec 24, 2023

ttwyman Hello! Yes, we've had some issues, mainly with Android users, but not all, and I've been working on them all day. Just pushed one final update, which I hope helps. Does it? (Refresh/force quit first).

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grvhppr
Dec 24, 2023

Nadia I’m an iPhone user with the latest 17.2.1 update and when I scan it gives me a random jumble of numbers for the ISBN. I’ve tried multiple books in various lights both before and after the 8:20 am PST update push. I don’t have an issue with blurriness.

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Nadia
Dec 24, 2023

rewildling Strange! What happens when you force quit the app? Can you send a screen recording to support@thestorygraph.com. Thank you!

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grvhppr
Dec 24, 2023

Nadia okay. I sent an email. Thanks for reaching out quickly.

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sassmistress
Dec 24, 2023

Nadia I have this problem too. Out of focus and not scanning, on Android. I updated several hours ago and the app store indicates I'm on 1.13 and up to date. Lmk if there's any data I can collect for you!

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ttwyman
Dec 24, 2023

Nadia no I still seem to be having the same problem

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Nadia
Dec 25, 2023

sassmistress This should be fixed now!

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Nadia
Dec 25, 2023

ttwyman This should be fixed now!

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ttwyman
Dec 25, 2023

Nadia its no longer blurry but for some reason it not detecting any numbers

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Nadia
Dec 25, 2023

ttwyman Be sure to force quit and we've found that having the camera very close to the book works well!

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ttwyman
Dec 25, 2023

Nadia I tried uninstalling it but having it very close to the barcode makes it blurry

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sassmistress
Dec 25, 2023

Nadia Yessssss got a working scan! Thank you! This is a game changer for me!!

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Nadia
Dec 26, 2023

ttwyman Okay, can you perhaps try further out and moving it slowly in? Not ideal, and wouldn't be how we'd leave things, but I want to see if that maps what I saw on my sister's Android phone yesterday.

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Nadia
Dec 26, 2023

sassmistress Yayyy!!!

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ttwyman
Dec 18, 2023

Any news on this for Android?

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Nadia
Dec 19, 2023

ttwyman It's not live for anybody but the plan is for iOS and Android to be released at the same time.

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ttwyman
Dec 19, 2023

Nadia oh right, I totally misunderstood the Instagram story then

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Nadia
Dec 19, 2023

ttwyman Hehe. It's on my phone (and Rob and Abbie's), but not on anyone else's! Really want it out this week. 🤞🏾

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ttwyman
Dec 19, 2023

Nadia oooh lucky you guys.
Looking forward to whenever its available then 😁

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Nadia
Dec 24, 2023

ttwyman Finally Android is working!

Pushing a new version of the app to the Play Store now.

Hopefully they don't take forever to approve it, especially during this holiday period... 🤞🏾

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rosiem
Dec 24, 2023

Nadia Yay! Thank you to the team giving updates all the time. So appreciated 💖

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ttwyman
Dec 24, 2023

Nadia oooh awesome thank you for keeping me updated, I'll keep an eye out for it

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Nadia
Dec 5, 2023
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Nadia
Nov 10, 2023
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immovabletype
Oct 4, 2023

Please!

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artemisthestoryteller
Aug 27, 2023

This would be delightful, especially for adding my home library to my owned books

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jessifanfic
Aug 5, 2023

This would be a great feature! Hard to find the right edition of a book (but better than Goodreads!).

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queen_a
Jul 17, 2023

This would be really helpful. 🩷

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rosiem
Jul 8, 2023

I can't wait for this! I'd love to be able to quickly add things to my "owned" list.

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Nadia
Jul 9, 2023

rosiem Hopefully coming this year!! 🤞🏾

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anniegalena
Jun 19, 2023

Can’t wait!!

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deeoh
Apr 2, 2023

I just got a scanner, this would be great!

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theresaemig
Nov 22, 2022

Ooh, this feature will be wonderful! Can’t wait for it!

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pianogrrl71
Nov 21, 2022

Yes please!! Very excited for this.

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sweetchocolatez
Aug 16, 2022

I’m really looking forward to this feature.

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betwixtbooks
Feb 22, 2022

This would be fantastic! Especially for imputing our existing physical books.

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the_preston_leigh
Feb 22, 2022

I am new to StoryGraph, but I have stopped using Goodreads and only use this app now. I would love this feature and can't wait for it to go live.

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rachelmfisher
Dec 16, 2021

I'll be so excited when this goes live. Will be the best way to add the physical books I have to my TBR.

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grvhppr
Sep 30, 2021

Will this only be barcode reading or will it be able to bring up a book by image recognition as well?

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Nadia
Oct 1, 2021

This is focused on barcode reading only, unless the API to scan barcodes comes with book cover image recognition built in!

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es06x
Oct 25, 2023

Nadia you might be able to modify the Google Vision API for book covers, it maybe could leverage the OCR text detection instead of book covers.

Also could be useful if not overkill for barcodes as it would read the numbers instead of the bars.

Google Vision API

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Nadia
Oct 27, 2023

es06x Thank you for the tip!

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Nadia
Sep 22, 2021
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TamaraReads
Sep 22, 2021

Yay! This makes me happy.

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Nadia
Sep 23, 2021

It's because of my current customer interview round, which I thank you for being a part of! 3 or 4 of the 8 have mentioned it at this point as something they'd really love!

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beautifulpaxielreads
Sep 20, 2021

This would be a great feature to have! Looking forward to having it implemented.

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grvhppr
Sep 18, 2021

I’m so excited for this feature. I love going into book stores and just scanning everything I want to read. Being able to do this with the barcode on the back instead of typing out the numbers would be handy.

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cajengirl
Sep 14, 2021

Yes! This is great! I often do this in bookstores when I see something I am interested in and want to quickly see reviews or add to my TBR.

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hesanka
May 21, 2021

Much easier to scan the ISBN rather than looking for the version of the book you have or type the ISBN by hand!

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hoshim
Apr 25, 2021

I would really love this featurethithisfeaturefeature

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caropi
Mar 24, 2021

this is a very useful feature

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jaymii
Mar 5, 2021

I used this all the time on goodreads. It was very helpful and added an extra bit of fun when adding the next book you're reading.

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snslayer
Mar 4, 2021

This will be a great feature to have one day when we can go back into bookstores and I can't buy everything but I CAN save everything to my to-read list!

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Nadia
Mar 1, 2021
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