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Write functionality that will enable Pyberry to track lending of books to other people. It should be flexible, so that somebody could do so little as provide the name of the borrower, or provide full information such as name, address, phone number, etc. Obviously this should be linked to the book record.

Add the ability to search other sites e.g. Amazon to find book information.

It's unknown if tags are storing correctly in books. Please verify the storage and retrieval of them.

Making use of them is a whole other ball game...

Lookup.py needs better error handling as there's a lot that can go wrong.

When attempting to pull book information by title from Google Books, it returns an error that says something to the effect of "'items' not in dictionary". It should be, according to Google's API docs, so I may have to figure a workaround.

Test for Mylyn Integration

Authors should be stored as a list and handled thusly, because it occurs frequently that a book has more than one author.

Then, like tags, the author storing and handling needs to be verified.

When there are unicode characters in any part of the book information (e.g. I was testing with "Gödel, Escher, Bach", these characters are not displayed properly). Either properly support the unicode or convert them into plain ascii where it wouldn't cause confusion?

Any location can be entered when changing the DB location, we need to compensate for this.

The DB Location chooser in the user interface (option 5) needs to have the user location at least checked for validity, perhaps based on platform? Perhaps test writing the database right away to make sure it's a valid location and there'll be no errors later.

Allow lookup of book information online by any attribute, not just ISBN.

At the moment, Pyberry does not support having multiple authors on a work. Improve so that it supports storing and retrieving multiple authors, as well as providing them from Google Book Search or while adding books manually.

When looking up based on title or ISBN, Pyberry crashes (while displaying the results for title search, anyways).

The following are the results.  Please enter the number of the

        result you'd like.  Press any key to display them.j
1) Title: Handbook of Applied Cryptography, Authors: u'Alfred J. Menezes', u'Paul C. van Oorschot', u'Scott A. Vanstone'

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/braxton/Development/git/pyberry/Pyberry/com/bjschafer/pyberry/PyBerry.py", line 400, in <module>
    addBook()
  File "/Users/braxton/Development/git/pyberry/Pyberry/com/bjschafer/pyberry/PyBerry.py", line 223, in addBook
    str(book['volumeInfo']['authors']).strip('[]'))
KeyError: 'authors'

I don't think I've changed anything in lookup.py for a while, so did Google change their API?

Right now, it's not possible to edit books. The only workaround is to delete a book and re-add it with the changed information. Add an option to the main menu allowing any field of any book to be edited.

When there's long numbers, they are sometimes displayed with an L at the end. This is annoying and needs to go away.

Right now the barcode, when randomly generated, is generated by a PRNG. It adds the absolute value of two random numbers in an effort to reduce collisions. After this summer, I've learned about the possibility of auto-incrementing the Primary Key of a SQL database. This might be something to consider, as it's a bit simpler and cheaper to code.

The caveats, though: it's not backwards compatible, which, as there's not a lot of use, isn't a huge deal. I'm also not sure if it would be possible to have a manually chosen barcode.