Any decent computer book stores in GTA?

[Russell]

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