[Koha] Adding your own book covers to koha

[Suchetha Wijenayake]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Nicole Engard
<nicole.engard at liblime.com> wrote:
> Sounds like something others have asked for - but not something that
> is easily doable.  I'd recommend a development project that allows
> people to upload their own book content after cataloging ... so that
> this kind of data can be stored in the database.
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> On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:24 AM, Suchetha Wijenayake <suchetha at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello all.
>>
>> I am setting up koha for a developmental organisation here in Sri
>> Lanka (you may have heard of the country, its been in the news a few
>> times lately).
>>
>> They have a rather large collection of technical books that they have
>> published, and they want to put the covers on the koha DB so that
>> people can know what the book SHOULD look like.
>>
>> They also want to put the back cover and contents page(s) up in the same way.
>>
>> I have looked high and low for an efficient way of doing this, and I
>> am at wit's end. Most places recommend using Amazon covers, but there
>> is no chance the books will be on AMZN (self-published and all that
>> dontcherknow).
>>
>> So where do I go from here? Does anyone have any ideas? Or has anyone done this?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Suchetha
>>
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I was afraid of that.
since my perl-fu is nonexistent, does anyone have a recommended
workaround? I can handle PHP (though i haven't hacked PHP code in
years)

Suchetha

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