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The limits of technology
Sep. 10th, 2012 04:20 amI was just reading up on ways to scan books into various cataloging applications. There was some discussion on the merits of OCR versus barcodes. One person noted that they prefer ISBNs despite the time required to type them in, because some of their books are too old to have barcodes.
Darlin', many of my books are too old to have LoC numbers, let alone ISBNs. Quite a few are older than, oh, Prohibition.
Still, scanning would make the process faster than scrabbling through the first few pages and squinting at the small print. Doing so makes me wish for a keypad.
To me, one of the true blessings of the smartphone era is the ability to carry a book catalogue in my pocket.
Darlin', many of my books are too old to have LoC numbers, let alone ISBNs. Quite a few are older than, oh, Prohibition.
Still, scanning would make the process faster than scrabbling through the first few pages and squinting at the small print. Doing so makes me wish for a keypad.
To me, one of the true blessings of the smartphone era is the ability to carry a book catalogue in my pocket.