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Idea
Don't you remember situation when you want to study some course or just read book, but you don't know how and where to find it? Now you have a chance to search any book you want from your friends or just someone who is ready to share it for free! We have implemented Web-based and Windows Phone 7 application for search/donate books around you. You can find books what you are interested at by searching them in Libraries and from donates. Each book could be filtered by:
- Title
- Author
- ISBN
- Bar code(QR code)
If you have a book to donate, you place your current location, fill information about your book, and share it through our application.
Features
- Finding books near you (according to your GPS coordinates)
- Bar code scanner feature ease the way of filling data about your book
- User both can find books in Libraries and from donates
- User can find book from WEB-site and from WP7 application
Target Group
- Students (Exchange, New, Foreign and Local)
- Young persons
- Poor people in need of books
Design
Architecture
Screen shots
Phone App
Web App
Technologies
- The application is based on .NET Framework platform
- Bing Maps for geolocation
- Microsoft Silverlight for outstanding user interface
- ZXing an open-source, multi-format 1D/2D barcode image processing library originally implemented by Google in Java
- MYSQL MySQL for Database layer
Conclusion of your work
Books4All is an application that can help people - who might not have the necessary resources - to get access to books by donations. It provides an intuitive and easy way to use phone interface with a multitude of features as well as a web application for everyone without a windows phone to use.
Millennium Goals Achieved
- Education: Users have the opportunity to get the necessary resources to study.
- Environmental Sustainability: Books are not dumped but re-used.