Sowing Circle's iPhone Blog

At last an Amazon application and this one is pretty neat (especially if you are the manager of the church bookstore!). Besides the obvious functions of searching the Amazon website, here is the thing that cinched it for me. From within the Amazon app, you can take a picture of the item you are interested in and they will search for you. It deosn’t have to be the stock number, just a picture of the item. They have live people (domiciled somewhere in the world) that will search their store for you. Now I tested it out by taking a picture of an ISBN code on the back of a book. I just happened to be with my boys in the Barnes & Noble in Bakersfield, CA. They saw some Star Wars stuff. So I thought I would try it out. It only took a minute and I got my info. Here was the process.

I took a picture of the ISBN within the Amazon app

Within a minute this is what I saw on the “Remembers” portion of the app, which was the actual item I was looking at.

When I got home and signed onto Amazon in my normal web browser, I got the info there as well. Obviously, they want me to make a purchase! But this is great, if you see something and want to find it and don’t have the stock number info.