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Practical guide

Taking good photos

  • Not too close, not too far
  • Test at what distance your phone takes photos with the writing still quite clear (usually between 50cm and 1 meter)
  • Take one side of a bookcase edge in the photo, it helps to find the books in the photos later
  • Be sure to take the photo from the middle of where you want to frame, you want all the books to be legible, so you need to center the photo well
  • Clean the lens well before taking photos
  • Don't zoom in or out; zoom lenses often have poorer quality than the camera's basic x1
  • It doesn't matter if your photos overlap a little, Biblioscan will only show you each unique book once
  • Trembling as little as possible to keep the photo as blur-free as possible, (tip: buy a 5€-bluetooth-trigger on the internet when you've made your first sales, it helps a lot to take photos discreetly and sharper)
Good photo example
✅ Good photo: clear, centered, showing book spines clearly
Bad photo example
❌ No tilted photos that don't face the camera
Another bad photo example
❌ No photo too close where there are no horizontal ends of book slices