Libron - Life hack of reading books for free

Libron Life hack of reading books for free

Self introduction • Junya Ishihara @jishiha • http://blog.champierre.com • Freelance programmer • Ruby on Rails

What is Libron?

What is Libron? • You can read books for free.

What is Libron? • You can read books for free. • Library + Amazon

What is Libron? • You can read books for free. • Library + Amazon • Firefox is required.

What is Libron? • You can read books for free. • Library + Amazon • Firefox is required. • Currently available in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Kanagawa, Chiba, Hyogo, Gifu, Mie, part of Saitama.

Demo http://screencast.com/t/YRSNWbq3

How to install • Firefox - Greasemonkey • Safari - GreaseKit (Tokyo only) • http://libron.net • http://github.com/champierre/libron

How it works? (1) • Search books on Amazon.

How it works? (2) • Get ISBN(ASIN) of the books.

How it works? (3) • Look up the books background on the selected library website.

How it works? (4) • Add links and icons on the Amazon web page.

How it works? (5) • Store the selected library into browser’s cookie.

Future of Libron

Future of Libron • Support all libraries of all prefectures in Japan. (It’s on Github. Anyone can contribute!!)

Future of Libron • Support all libraries of all prefectures in Japan. (It’s on Github. Anyone can contribute!!) • Store data of what people borrowed at libraries and provide recommendation like Amazon.

http://libron.net Thank you

Libron - Life hack of reading books for free

by Junya Ishihara on Nov 20, 2009

Accessibility

Categories

Tags

Upload Details

Usage Rights

1 Embed 2

Statistics

Libron - Life hack of reading books for free — Presentation Transcript