http://www.danvk.org/wp/2006-10-19/excited-about-a-library/ Keepin' static like wool fabric since 2006 Wed, 08 Oct 2014 14:33:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.2 http://www.danvk.org/wp/2006-10-19/excited-about-a-library/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Sat, 21 Oct 2006 07:25:31 +0000 http://www.danvk.org/wp/?p=30#comment-6 [...] Before I discovered the San Jose library, I had an idea for a 20% project at Google. Wouldn’t it be cool if every Google employee made a list of the books they owned and were willing to share? I doubt there’s any library that could beat the Google workforce in sci-fi or CS literature. The problem with this idea is that data entry is painful. I can’t imagine typing every single ISBN of all my hundreds of books onto a computer, let alone convincing other people to do it. Delicious Library turns this problem completely on its head. Not only does it make entering ISBNs easy, it makes it exciting. I wouldn’t have thought that was possible before discovering this program. [...]

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