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After having scanned a few books (>100) I noticed that switching back to
the home screen will show me a "loading..." popup for a while or even a
white screen with the HTC logo.
Looks like BookWorm uses loads of dynamic ram...
No other app (experimenting mostly with navigation stuff and calenders)
triggers this behavior so far.
Not a big issue right now, but might point to inefficient memory handling
or some other architectural problem.


(A bit of a pita when my fumbiling fingers accidentally press BACK instead
of MENU)

Right now system allows dupe books on purpose, could check and warn if same 
ISBN is being used via search or scan though, easily. 

Refactor the web search results page to show authors, and to give it a 
little more room. (It's awkward with N1, looks good on G1 and Droid though -
- seems to be a phys keybd or not diff). 

Reset cover image for a single book, from edit page, works, but doesn't save 
the file in /images.  This means the next time the app starts cover images 
aren't there.  

Scan book,
online check retrieves info and I could add book to library.
If I flip the phone from landscape to portrait or vice versa, bookworm
checks the web again instead of just adjusting the orientation.

Search screen results, which are preserved, aren't re-shown after 
orientation change. Right now only reshows if coming back from search 
detail/add page, should also reshow if from self. 

Instructions, plans, tips, tricks, questions, etc. 

Often books retrieved through a scan will have a generic or incorrect cover
due to many reason, some being publishing run used different one.
If we manually ad a book we can snap a cover image pic, I would like to see
this functionality extended throughout the whole application.
Thanks Charlie.

Type in some chars on main screen, expect to filter, not working. Does work 
on search ListView, not on Main. 

From email:

"I am having a problem adding a book to the database. I entered a book 
manually since it did not have a barcode. A new edition was bought and the 
program recognizes the barcode but will not put it in the database. I 
deleted the first entry of the book and tried again to add the book. The 
same thing happens, the program recognizes the barcode and comed back with 
the correct book but it still does not accept it in the database. I am using 
a Motorola Droid phone."

Make skip splash the default. 

Sort dialog, using one button, rather than sep menu item for each, and add 
other sort options. 

Entire app needs to be i18n'd. Right now it's English only and a lot of text 
is in code rather than resources (bad). 

From email: 

"Love this app.  Any chance you could allow sort by published date?  I 
actually replace that date with the date I completed reading it.  Just a 
thought.  Seriously great."

User is overloading pub date as read date. Maybe consider adding another 
field for read date too? 

Notify users if SD card is not present, or in use, because art won't store 
without it.

I already check if it's available before I try to use it, but I need to 
notify the user if it's not available so they know why they end up with the 
default missing cover images (or gened covers). 

http://developer.android.com/intl/es/resources/dashboard/platform-
versions.html

Had a user send me a note saying she can't find the app in the market using 
a Samsung Galaxy (a 7500 in France, likely).  Probably because manifest says 
1.6 and up. Should test with 1.5 and see if that works too. Could release a 
1.5 and up version, don't think I am using anything special from 1.6 for 
this app. 

Search screen results are repeated in some "get more results" scenarios

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/03/speech-input-api-for-
android.html

See TotSP thread - http://www.screaming-penguin.com/node/7754.

Rather than one Category, do the tag thing. Separate Activity to 
maintain/create/remove/move tags, and then when editing a book a drop down 
choice list for the tags it should have. 

When I scan a large batch, it is rather tedious to rate them.
I need to select the book, rate/tag it then quit and select the next one.

It would be convenient, when there was a previous/next button on the book
screen to go the the previous / next book in the current list.

In the end I want to be able to set up a selection criteria (all unread or
un-starred or untagged, ...) and then handle all of those quickly.

Search screen results should select correct place in the list - right now 
add more, goes to top

Add ability to filter list by attributes, only read, only non-read, certain 
author, certain rating, etc.

Rather than just "sort alpha" and "sort rating" make "Sort" an AlertDialog 
with more choices. Include read/unread, each rating level, author name, 
publisher, category (tags when we get those), *and* alpha/all ratings. 

When creating a manual entry, the ISBN fields do not allow the entry of non
numeric characters in the ISBN fields.
I do have quite a few books whose ISBN10 ends in an X...
Can not enter this...

Have to remove the soft keyboard a lot on N1, awkward. Need to clean up the 
web search results page so it isn't shown when results are there. 

Right now, if you click a book on results page, don't add it, then click 
back -- works great, results still there, soft keyboard not shown (but 
cursor appears to be in edittext).  Same scenario but ADD the book, takes 
you back to search results with soft keyboard on top of results. 

"You should add an option to write book reviews which would be stored in the 
apparently and could be shared via Facebook with an automatically collected 
link to Amazon page for said book if available on the Facebook post."

The books already have a "review" in the model. Not exposed yet, but it's 
there. The first social features will be Google Books "My Library" based, it 
has reviews too, but then also adding Facebook/etc -- great idea. 

Currently I need to press 3 buttons to scan a book and then a fourth for
confirmation. Menu, Add, Scan and then confirm. When going through a
library this is rather tedious. 

It would be nice to be able to set up BookWorm to stay in scanning mode
after confirmation of a book, so that only the confirm button is needed
anymore after the first book.

Currently the process of scanning and tagging books is not linked making it
unnecessarily slow.

It would be nice to be able to set rating and tags already on the scan
confirmation screen instead having to browse the book and then tag it.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/booksearch-apis/thread?
tid=3e0ea5f48e01b480&hl=en

400 Bad Request (link must have href)

This causes BooKWorm searches and scans to completely fail. Hoping Google 
addresses it soon, but follow up more here if we can. 

Just use formatted Strings. 

when searching manually, I need to enter ISBN in front of the number.
I can not use the enter key to start the search but need to click away the
keyboard first (obviously on a soft key device) and then tap the search button.

Right now the list resets and you end up at the top, make it remember where 
you were and go back there (or near there in case of delete). 

From email:

"Two more flags:
Owned: yes/no, so I can properly keep books in the database which I read and 
then sold again.
Lend: to keep track of books which I lended to someone else. Possibly with a 
name field :)"

Here are some ISBN numbers/titles where the results are a bit strange....
Might help in debugging:

Book found by number, title shown, tap on title and then I get an error
book not found: 
034531980x Sentenced to Prism

Book not found by number but title:
00600934719 Stardust
0446356018 Cradle


Wrong result by scan, multiple options by manual entry, wrong one (first in
list) chosen even if right one (second or further down in list) is tapped:
3453009754 Hainish
3435301439 Der Herr des Wüstenplaneten
3453308425 Der Gottkaiser des Wüstenplaneten
345330523x Der Wüstenplanet
Not found at all neither via isbn nor author and title:
0061001082 The Bridge, Ian Banks

Just downloaded 1.0.7
I think I need to switch my phone to English. Usually feels much saner ;-)

On a more serious note:
"Sparen" -> "Speichern"
"Verwalten Sie Buch Einband Kunst" > "Titelbild bearbeiten"
"Bearbeiten Buch Detailliert" -> Buchdetails editieren"
"Gegenstand" -> "Genre"
"Bearbeiten Buch" -> Buch bearbeiten"
"Aktuelle Cover Image" -> "Aktuelles Titelbild"
"Vorzüge" -> "Einstellungen"
"Ermöglichen Sie Spritzer" -> "Startbild"
"Aktivieren Sie die Debug..." -> "Debug Funktion"
"Buchen Sie Datenversorger" -> "Datenquelle"
"Buchen Sie Decke Bildnis Ver..." -> "Umschlagquelle"
"Stellen Sie Decke Kunst Nach" -> "Umschlagbilder neu laden"

In the sort options:
"Lesen Sie den Status" -> "Lesestatus"

A shopping list for Amazon idea from Cooper. 

You might not have the book when you enter it, and the cover image picture 
is problematic sometimes. A better approach would be to make the Edit-
>Manage Cover Image screen have an option to take a picture for the cover, 
and then users can enter with the form, and then EDIT to set whatever 
properties they want, including cover image (and books added other ways can 
also use the cover image picture). 

Rate a book with any number of stars, try to reset the rating to 0 stars.....
There is no option available to do so.

Right now, if Barcode Scanner is not present, you get the "whoops" message 
and a back click takes you to the market to install. Should take you 
directly to the market to install and tell you why (the whoops should not 
happen in that case). 

When entering new items the program 
somehow generaties its own covers 
instead of downloading the originals. 
When I download the covers myself and 
point to them they sometimes will and 
sometimes will not be copied to the 
bookwormdata folder on the SD card. I 
need to add that I use the Dutch version 
of Android 2.1 and most books I read are 
dutch aswell.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Scan dutch book
2. download cover manually
3. point to cover in 
4. Delete cover from downloadlocation
5. Check if cover is still shown in 
bookworm

What is the expected output? What do 
you see instead?
I think the cover should be copied to the 
bookwormdata folder on the SD card in 
two sizes (full & thumbnail). fter I delete 
the cover from the downloadlocation it 
fails to show in bookworm.

What version of the product are you 
using? On what operating system?
Dutch Android 2.1 on HTC Legend. 
Bookworm is at 1.0.6.

Please provide any additional 
information below.

Right now "provider" infrastructure is in place, just need to finish out 
Google OAuth and sync with Google Books "bookshelf" (new stuff added *while* 
this was being developed, same exact idea as this project). Then add other 
providers after initial Google Books. 

The detailed information about the book is only shown when using the edit
function but not when opening the book info.

Users have asked for way to export and print out/display the data in other 
apps. 

Until the sync with other online sources is ready, make an export to email, 
and a way to import from a selected DB file (any location on external 
storage, rather than just one path it now uses). That way any user could 
email themselves a backup db, and then use it to import to another phone, 
share, etc. 

Also, make an export to HTML or TEXT format for print/view. 

Come up with stats, maybe charts?  Link back to filters (see who the top 
authors are from the stats page, for example, then click one to filter the 
main list by that author). 

Several users have asked that authors be shown on the main list page. 
(Authors can be sorted, and it's good info, etc.)

David MacLeod has reported this and been very helpful in providing info 
about it.  

Here is the last email from the log (bug happens only on DroidMod ROM with 
a Droid, as far as I know, on a stock Droid scanning works fine, I have one 
of those I use for testing).  

"#Created by Quick System Info version 1.3.6

Device: sholes
Model: Droid
Product: voles
Brand: verizon
Release: 2.0.1
Build: DroidMod 164 (1.0)
Locale: en_US

Linux version 2.6.29-compcache06_unionfs253-sholes-omap1-hg383b38baebcb-
dirty (trevorj@Fatty) (gcc version 4.3.1 (GCC) ) #106 PREEMPT Wed Feb 17 
07:33:36 UTC 2010

04-01 09:41:43.022 E/NetworkStateTracker(1274) :    
net.tcp.buffersize.evdo not found in system properties. Using defaults
04-01 09:56:51.960 E/WindowManager(1274) :  Unknown window type: 2008
04-01 09:57:03.100 E/WindowManager(1274) :  Unknown window type: 2008
04-01 09:57:15.905 E/AndroidRuntime(24580) :    Uncaught handler: thread 
AsyncTask #1 exiting due to uncaught exception
04-01 09:57:15.944 E/AndroidRuntime(24580) :    java.lang.RuntimeException: 
An error occured while executing doInBackground()
04-01 09:57:15.944 E/AndroidRuntime(24580) :    at 
android.os.AsyncTask$3.done(AsyncTask.java:200)
04-01 09:57:15.944 E/AndroidRuntime(24580) :    at 
java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerSetException(FutureTask.java:273)
04-01 09:57:15.944 E/AndroidRuntime(24580) :    at 
java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.setException(FutureTask.java:124)
04-01 09:57:15.944 E/AndroidRuntime(24580) :    at 
java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:307)
04-01 09:57:15.944 E/AndroidRuntime(24580) :    at 
java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:137)
04-01 09:57:15.944 E/AndroidRuntime(24580) :    at 
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1
068)
04-01 09:57:15.944 E/AndroidRuntime(24580) :    at 
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:
561)
04-01 09:57:15.944 E/AndroidRuntime(24580) :    at 
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1096)
04-01 09:57:15.944 E/AndroidRuntime(24580) :    Caused by: 
java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Invalid location 0, size is 0
04-01 09:57:15.944 E/AndroidRuntime(24580) :    at 
java.util.ArrayList.get(ArrayList.java:341)
04-01 09:57:15.944 E/AndroidRuntime(24580) :    at 
com.totsp.bookworm.data.GoogleBookDataSource.getSingleBook(GoogleBookDataSo
urce.java:61)
04-01 09:57:15.944 E/AndroidRuntime(24580) :    at 
com.totsp.bookworm.data.GoogleBookDataSource.getBook(GoogleBookDataSource.j
ava:39)
04-01 09:57:15.944 E/AndroidRuntime(24580) :    at 
com.totsp.bookworm.BookEntryResult$GetBookDataTask.doInBackground(BookEntry
Result.java:125)
04-01 09:57:15.944 E/AndroidRuntime(24580) :    at 
com.totsp.bookworm.BookEntryResult$GetBookDataTask.doInBackground(BookEntry
Result.java:1)
04-01 09:57:15.944 E/AndroidRuntime(24580) :    at 
android.os.AsyncTask$2.call(AsyncTask.java:185)
04-01 09:57:15.944 E/AndroidRuntime(24580) :    at 
java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:305)
04-01 09:57:15.944 E/AndroidRuntime(24580) :    ... 4 more
04-01 09:57:17.811 E/JavaBinder(1274) : !!! FAILED BINDER TRANSACTION !!!
04-01 09:57:23.061 E/WindowManager(1274) :  Unknown window type: 2008"

Must rename the cover image file too, if the title is changed. 

The database can be manually saved right now, it would be nice if that were 
automatic at some point, or at least possible to make it auto via a setting 
(auto is tricky though, because it overrides other backups, unless maybe it 
used a different file). 

Right now you can't change or enter the ISBN.  ISBN is important even for 
manually entered books, because it is used for the cover image lookup, etc. 

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Enter "isbn [number]" in web search
2. Select appropriate book
3. Add screen says "null" from product code

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Bood details

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
2.1 Cyanogen 5.0.6

Please provide any additional information below.