The barcode of the author’s 2023 book, ‘Barcode,’ tattooed on his arm. Stevie Edwards For decades, barcodes have been a workhorse operating in the background of our lives.

Currently, many publishers place a Bookland EAN barcode on their books, which contains the price — a requirement that was pushed for by major book retailers like Barnes & Noble and became ...

The first modern barcode was scanned 50 years ago this summer – on a 10-pack of chewing gum in a grocery store in Troy, Ohio. Fifty is ancient for most technologies, but barcodes are still going ...

A couple times a month our technical services librarian, Tammie Gitchel, gets two or three large boxes containing 60-100 new ...

We recently acquired a flipbook from barcode artist Scott Blake. The tiny book features a portrait of Andy Warhol (1928-1987), created with the barcodes from Campbell’s soup cans. There’s also a ...

RefME takes the tedium out of creating reference lists by letting users either scan a book’s barcode with their smartphone to grab the relevant info, or doing a manual search for the book title ...

The book uses Scanbuy’s ScanLife technology to enable consumers taking a picture of the 2D barcode to be sent directly to its Amazon page. Once there, consumers can purchase the book from their phone ...

Just scan the ISBN barcode that’s printed on nearly every book and its front cover, title, author and other info is brought right into the app. Kids can add it to their own individual library ...