Not great for books

I have tried to use the Photo Remote to scan barcodes of my books in order to import them into my inventory.

So far, the scanner/lookup has come up with incorrect information for about half the books I have tried scanning (mostly the older ones, I think). I dont understand why this would occur, since it is reading the ISBN off the barcode, and the ISBNs surely havent changed.

For the books that have been recognized, it seems to obtain the following fields only:
- Publisher
- Title
- Price

Im certain Im not the only person who expects it to find the Author! Of course, there is other information that would be good too.

Maybe if I hunt in the documentation, I can find a way to get it to behave in a more intuitive way, but I think its not too much to expect to have an Author field come up by default in a Book category.

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