Hebrew books entries to Calibre

[Ely Levy]

It's not complicated to write a plugin to Calibre that does what you want.
But personally I don't like working for commercial companies for free.
I think the right thing to do is to go the cddb way of making a free
database
for books and dana codes. I don't trust a company to not all the sudden
change their mind and decide to ask for money.

Ely

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Just a quick recap:
>
> 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.
> 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].
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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...
>
> 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.
>
> In short, any of you can think of a way we can, as a community, make this
> happen?
>
> I am willing to help, but I am no developer, just a Linux user... :-)
>
> Uri is waiting for an e-mail from me, with my suggestion.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Amichai.
>
> [1] http://calibre-ebook.com/
> [2] http://www.danacode.co.il/
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:57, E L <nakeee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Do you know any site that can be used to get the information by the
>> D.A.N.A code?
>>
>> Ely
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il>wrote:
>>
>>> Dana Code is the Israeli equivalent to ISBN.
>>>
>>> Pick up any Hebrew book from your bookshelf and look on the back cover,
>>> where the barcode is.
>>> On Aug 24, 2011 10:09 PM, "E L" <nakeee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > There are Hebrew books which don't have ISBN number?
>>> > And what's a dana code? I can't find it on google?
>>> >
>>> > Ely
>>> >
>>> > 2011/8/24 Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il>
>>> >
>>> >> Dana Systems
>>>
>>
>>
>
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