Book Scout
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Built in a real library sorting room

Scan the book. Know the book.

Point a phone at a barcode. Book Scout identifies the edition, prices it against live comps, tells the volunteer which rack it belongs on, and hands your library a MARC21 record. A box of donations becomes a catalogue before the shift ends.

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Free tier, no card. Web, iOS, Android, desktop — one catalogue.

4metadata sources, cross-checked
0keystrokes per book
MARC21straight into your ILS
Offlinequeue drains on reconnect
book-scout · scan session
grounded fields marked ✓ · guesses marked ⚠ · nothing invented
The toolkit

One app, the whole sale.

Everything a book sale actually needs, from the folding table to the finance report, with no second system to keep in sync.

01

The scanner

Barcode, spine photo, or a whole stack at once. Duplicate detection, condition grading, signed-copy and first-edition flags. Works with a USB scanner gun for rapid entry.

camera · gun · offline queue
02

The catalogue

A real spreadsheet grid: inline edit, bulk re-categorise, saved views, faceted filters. Exports to CSV, Excel and MARC21, and syncs two ways with Google Sheets.

grid · filters · export
03

The expert

Ask your catalogue anything. It reads the shelf through tools, not memory, so “which theology books are worth over $50?” is answered from your own records.

tool-calling · streaming
04

Live valuation

Canadian sold comps and used-market listings, not a number the model remembered. Every estimate carries its sources, its range and the date it was priced, or it says plainly that it found nothing.

sold comps · cited sources · repriced on demand
05

Point of sale

Ring up one book or a whole armful. Holds, loans, wishlist alerts, receipts, and a per-day, per-category, per-volunteer takings report.

checkout · holds · reports
06

For the library

MARC21 out (binary .mrc and MarcEdit .mrk), plus shared collections, volunteer roles, printable shelf labels and pick-lists.

ILS · roles · labels
07

The public sale page

Share one link and buyers browse what is on the table: priced, grouped by rack, always current. No app to install, nothing to print, nothing to keep in sync by hand.

short link · read-only · live
Trust

A guess never
reaches the record.

Language models invent things. That is a fact about the technology, not a bug anyone can promise away — so Book Scout is built so a fabricated fact can never silently become part of your catalogue. Every field is either grounded in a source you can check, or it is flagged for a human.

✓
ISBN checksums, firstAn ISBN that fails its check digit is rejected at the scanner. An invented one never gets in the door.
✓
Verified against the sourceTitle, author, year and publisher are re-checked against Open Library, Google Books and the Library of Congress. Mismatches are surfaced, not overwritten.
⚠
Marked when it is a guessGrounded fields carry a ✓. AI-guessed fields carry a ⚠. You always know which is which, on every record.
✓
Cite or abstainThe assistant answers from your catalogue and its tools. Asked something it cannot ground, it says so instead of filling the silence.
Pricing

Start free.
Pay when it pays off.

Unlimited scanning on every plan, including the free one. Upgrade only when you need the things that earn their keep — live pricing, MARC export, a whole team scanning into one sale.

Yearly billing is two months free.

Free
$0 / forever
  • Unlimited scanning
  • AI shelf suggestions
  • Private collection
  • CSV / Excel export
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Bookseller
$19 / month
  • Everything in Free
  • Live market pricing
  • AI listings & sales tracking
  • Two-way Google Sheets sync
  • Deep-dossier appraisals
Start selling
Library
$49 / month
  • Everything in Bookseller
  • Shared collections & roles
  • Real-time multi-user sync
  • MARC21 export for your ILS
  • Labels, tags & pick-lists
  • Priority support
Equip your library
Enterprise
CustomBilled annually, by invoice
  • Everything in Library
  • Estate & bulk liquidation volumes
  • Your own valuation models
  • API access & custom integrations
  • Onboarding, training & SLA
  • On-premise or private hosting
Contact sales

Prices in CAD. Libraries and universities can be billed yearly by invoice against a purchase order — no card required.

Enterprise is for university systems, library consortia, auction houses, estate liquidators and bookshop chains. Volume pricing, procurement paperwork, security review and onboarding included.

Next sale

Your next book sale,
catalogued by closing.

Set it up in five minutes on any phone, tablet or laptop. No card for the free tier.

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