{"id":1362,"date":"2010-08-18T06:44:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T11:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2010-08-19T05:50:01","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T10:50:01","slug":"pbs-wishing-android-app-to-find-out-if-a-book-is-popular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/18\/pbs-wishing-android-app-to-find-out-if-a-book-is-popular\/","title":{"rendered":"PBS Wishing &#8211; Android App to find out if a book is popular!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:571,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.paperbackswap.com\\\/index.php?n=2&amp;r_by=bills%40summet.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.paperbackswap.com\\\/index.php?n=2&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/3_scanned_postmistress.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/3_scanned_postmistress-200x300.png\" alt=\"Main application screen, showing the book &quot;Postmistress&quot; having 610 people wishing for it.\" title=\"3_scanned_postmistress\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/3_scanned_postmistress-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/3_scanned_postmistress.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a> I have developed an application for Android Phones (OS version 1.5 or higher) that allows you to enter an ISBN from a book (or scan the barcode if your phone has a camera) and find out how many people are wishing for the book on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paperbackswap.com\/index.php?n=2&#038;r_by=bills%40summet.com\">PaperbackSwap.com<\/a>. If a lot of people are wishing for a book, it&#8217;s a good indication that the book is popular, which may mean it is worth reading. (Or at least, if you decide you don&#8217;t like it, it will be easy to get a book credit for it on paperbackswap.com.)<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nYou can find it easily in the Android Market by searching for &#8220;Summet&#8221;, (or &#8220;PaperBackSwap&#8221;). Alternatively, if you already have a QR barcode scanner on your phone, you can take a picture of this QR code to go directly to it in the market:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Market_QR_download_code.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Market_QR_download_code-300x300.png\" alt=\"A QR barcode that leads to the PaperBackSwap Wishing application on the android market.\" title=\"Market_QR_download_code\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Market_QR_download_code-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Market_QR_download_code-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Market_QR_download_code.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have developed an application for Android Phones (OS version 1.5 or higher) that allows you to enter an ISBN from a book (or scan the barcode if your phone has a camera) and find out how many people are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/18\/pbs-wishing-android-app-to-find-out-if-a-book-is-popular\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,2,12],"tags":[95,99],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phones","category-projects","category-technology","category-goodlinks","tag-android","tag-pbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}