How to add Books with Barcodes

If you have lots of physical books and your books have barcodes you can use a barcode scanner to add them!

While many different barcode scanners may work, the Booktower team has tested with the Tera Barcode Scanner which works on both Windows & Linux and is available for $30 USD at the time of writing this.

Once you have your scanner, you can connect the provided wireless adapter to your computer (for the Terra Scanner the wireless adapter is in the bottom of the handle) and use it to more easily add books via the Bulk Mode.

Just open the bulk mode, make sure to click inside the text field, and scan away! We recommend checking your screen and submitting the list every so often, just in case something goes wrong and your submission doesn't go through.

If you've used another easily purchasable scanner with Booktower and it worked, let us know! We hope to create a list of working scanners on this page.