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</font></b>At 08:18 PM 8/13/2006 -0400, you wrote:<br>
>On 8/13/06, Colin McGregor <colinmc151-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> wrote:<br>
>> --- Kush <be_a_sport-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> wrote:<br>
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>> [snip]<br>
>><br>
>> > I think we should have some sort of library for the<br>
>> > TLUG people on the<br>
>> > lines of bookcrossing.com or a book bank or we<br>
>> > should have a section on<br>
>> > the TLUG website which lists where all one can see<br>
>> > the latest technical<br>
>> > books (e.g. university department libraries or<br>
>> > college libraries or govt<br>
>> > libraries or company libraries), their timings,<br>
>> > membership details, some<br>
>> > sort of rating etc etc<br>
>><br>
>> David over at Linuxcaffe kind-of sort-off does this.<br>
>> I've kind-off sort-of help with that by dropping off<br>
>> some technical magazines that I had more more use of<br>
>> over at Linuxcaffe. Other people I gather have done<br>
>> similar, and I gather David has received goodies from<br>
>> at least one book publisher. Might want to talk to<br>
>> David about expanding what he is doing now...<br>
><br>
>It's true, I have a sprawling pile of reference, most of which is
out<br>
>of date and/or in the basement. APress dropped a sweet load of
curent<br>
>titles for review.<br>
><br>
>What I would like to do (or better yet, encourage somebody else to
do) is<br>
>a) catalog the books, using a barcode scanner and amazon
lookup.<br>
>b) make the catalog readable via "shopping cart" on our
website<br>
>(linuxcaffe.ca /books?)<br>
>c) get my customer/membership database working and<br>
>d) allow members to borrow the books.<br>
>e) continue to collect good reference and weed out the cruft.<br>
><br>
>whew !<br>
><br>
>sounds like a nice winter project !<br>
><br>
>we have over 60 back issues of Linux Journal and scads of other
mags,<br>
>available fer perusin.<br>
><br>
>thanks to all who dropped off the goods,<br>
>djp<br>
><br>
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