Engineering a Solution to the "Library Problem"
A husband and wife pair of engineers had 3500 books and no shelving or organizational scheme. The solution is explored, in detail, at their blog Hackito Ergo Sum. It is a sound plan and they seem happy. All is well.
Interestingly, the "geek factor" of it was enough to get it posted on Slashdot (N.B. the couple hosts their blog on their own hardware and he wisely posted it immediately to /. to avoid having the hordes of /.ers crash his system. The posts there are a riot. My personal favorite:
Great fun, all around......of my ex-daughter-in-law, who decided to surprise me for my birthday by reorganizing my (3500) books:Oh, painful memory (Score:5, Funny)
By height.
Labels: blogs, bookish, bookshelves, computers, random bits
posted by LuxMentis @ 6:37 PM
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just think of all the books they could have bought with $440
cataloging your personal non circulating collection is just mental masturbation.
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