The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 4, January 28, 2007, Article 15

ON TAGGING BOOKS

Len Augsburger writes: "Forget about putting microchips in coins -
what we need to do is put them in books.  Then there might be actually
a slight chance that I could inventory my library, a la 'shelfari'.

[New books have ISBN numbers, and with this systems like Shelfari and
LibraryThing look up the rest.  Other modern methods of identifying
books include bar codes and RFID tags.  But older books have none of
these.  For these, what would be really useful is electronic access to
the seller's catalogue description.

If I were to buy say, three great numismatic books from a George Kolbe
sale, two from Spink and several others from ABEbooks, it would be great
if the catalog descriptions came along with the books and could be easily
added to my personal electronic catalog of my library.  Since ABEbook
bought LibraryThing, maybe something like this is available or in the
works there. -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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