Delicious Scanner for Android

I easily scanned in half a dozen books, with apparent complete success - until I went to pair my phone with the desktop app. The pairing appeared to go fine, but nothing actually imported. All the scans were there - but not a single one actually showed the book in question or any of its data, only the barcode number. Neither the “Refresh Details from Internet” nor the “Revert All Details from Internet” selections under the Amazon Link menu did anything. The books did all show up correctly online when I selected “View Book on Amazon” (or the other two options in that section), but the data still didn’t populate the app. In *every single case,* I received a boxed error message that read “Line 1: Space required after the Public Identifier. Line 1: SystemLiteral “ or ‘ expected. Line 1: SYSTEM or PUBLIC, the URI is missing.” It appears that the app is expecting a space or some other character following the barcode, which apparently isn’t there, and clearly the scanner isn’t adding it in. I unpaired and repaired the two devices several times, rescanned all of the barcodes (including the pairing one) several times, and got the same error every time. I last used the Delicious app a number of years ago and forgot about it until today, but however I got the entries I made then into the app, I am absolutely certain I did not have to manually enter anything the way this scanner app is obviously requiring that I do, which clearly renders it completely useless. I updated it, so I’m running the current version on Catalina 10.15.3, and iOS 12.4.6 on an Android 6 Plus. I’m really disappointed because I really like that the basic app allows connecting directly to Amazon Seller Central, which *ought* to mean I could easily list the items I want to sell, but obviously the data has to get into the app in the first place for that to work. Uh, hello, Delicious Monster? What is going on? Why is your scanner not working? These are all brand new books with current barcodes, so it’s not like it’s not picking up an old format. Hint: There is NO WAY I am going to spend $40 on your main app if I can’t even easily scan my items into it.

I had a problem at first with scanning always returning an error. It turns out that I had to update the desktop app that my phone was paired with, but the way the error is returned, it felt like the phone app was having the error. I’ve also seen some scans come back with the wrong items (as others have reported). I don’t understand after all this time, why DL3’s library info cannot be replicated in the scanner app or a separate companion app for iOS.

Edit: 2 emails to “support” have gone unanswered. After scanning over 500 books with my phone, (1/4 of my library). I wanted to export to CVS file to have a backup. I did the export AND THE ISBN field was blank! Needless to say, I am beyond annoyed. Use Libib, it works. I had the most recent version 3 on my Android.

This handy app is just the thing to quickly load up your books, movies, music, etc. into your Delicious Library!

This app doesn’t seem updated in a timely manner.