That's right... the app looks for one (and only one) name per page. So I guess it's a good idea to check the copyright page for names when you browse at the second hand book store.

We have a couple of Military History publishers (Osprey, and Casemate)... is there a specific publisher that we should work on for you? As for Sci-Fi, we have Angry Robot, but haven't yet been able to sign up Tor/Forge. We're working on them though. Stay tuned.

Send an email to support@bitlit.com and I'll see what I can do for you.

The app is currently available in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ, and South Africa... but we haven't ventured into non-English language markets yet. The #shelfie and book recognition algorithms are currently tuned for the English language books-in-print database, so they'd do pretty poorly on a shelf with…

Thanks for the kudos... I'll share with the team :)

While it won't do it in that direction, bitlit.com will do it in the other direction: you own the physical book, and bitlit will let you get the ebook for cheap/free.