<div dir="ltr">It's not complicated to write a plugin to Calibre that does what you want.<br>But personally I don't like working for commercial companies for free.<br>I think the right thing to do is to go the cddb way of making a free database<br>
for books and dana codes. I don't trust a company to not all the sudden<br>change their mind and decide to ask for money.<br><br>Ely<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Amichai Rotman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amichai@iglu.org.il">amichai@iglu.org.il</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi All,</div><div><br></div><div>Just a quick recap:</div><div><br></div><div>I would like to add my 300~ Hebrew books to by Calibre [1] catalog. I already add most of my English books. The "problem" with Hebrew books is that they have no ISBN (almost all of the new ones) but the Israeli equivalent - D.A.N.A. Code.</div>
<div>Currently, there is no way to freely query the D.A.N.A. Code database. This code is provided and the database is maintained by a private company called Dana Code Systems [2].</div><div><br></div><div>I understand it is easy enough to write a plugin to extend Calibre's capabilities, so I thought maybe we (as in the FOSS community in Israel) can write that plugin and query the database. I called Dana Code Systems and spoke with Uri - a developer.</div>
<div><br></div><div>He says it's not a problem to query their data base for book info, but the info included is intended for book shops and book distributors: Price, category, author - no book cover or summery.</div>
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<br></div><div>He is willing to grant us query access to the data base if I convince him it will be worth while for his company from a business point of view, i.e.: They will provide the access in return for paying customers, being a private company and all... </div>
<div><br></div><div>Dana Code Systems sells a year subscription to access their data base. They once considered populating the DB with the missing data (cover image, summery etc.), and even found a Librarian that was willing to do the data entry, but they dropped it due to financial reasons.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In short, any of you can think of a way we can, as a community, make this happen?</div><div><br></div><div>I am willing to help, but I am no developer, just a Linux user... :-)</div><div><br></div><div>
Uri is waiting for an e-mail from me, with my suggestion.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div><br></div><div>Amichai.</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://calibre-ebook.com/" target="_blank">http://calibre-ebook.com/</a></div>
<div>[2] <a href="http://www.danacode.co.il/" target="_blank">http://www.danacode.co.il/</a></div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div>On Thu, Aug 25, <a href="tel:2011" value="+9722011" target="_blank">2011</a> at 12:57, E L <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nakeee@gmail.com" target="_blank">nakeee@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div>
<div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Do you know any site that can be used to get the information by the D.A.N.A code?<br>
<br>Ely<div><div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 25, <a href="tel:2011" value="+9722011" target="_blank">2011</a> at 12:01 AM, Amichai Rotman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amichai@iglu.org.il" target="_blank">amichai@iglu.org.il</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>Dana Code is the Israeli equivalent to ISBN.</p>
<p>Pick up any Hebrew book from your bookshelf and look on the back cover, where the barcode is.</p><div><div></div><div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 24, <a href="tel:2011" value="+9722011" target="_blank">2011</a> 10:09 PM, "E L" <<a href="mailto:nakeee@gmail.com" target="_blank">nakeee@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">
> There are Hebrew books which don't have ISBN number?<br>
> And what's a dana code? I can't find it on google?<br>> <br>> Ely<br>> <br>> 2011/8/24 Amichai Rotman <<a href="mailto:amichai@iglu.org.il" target="_blank">amichai@iglu.org.il</a>><br>> <br>
>> Dana Systems<br>
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