"Michael A. Terrell" on Sun, 11 Nov 2012
21:40:58 -0500 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
"Alex W." wrote:
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 03:25:09 -0500, Tom Gardner wrote:
On 11/11/2012 2:36 AM, Jeanne Douglas wrote:
Most of my books are in a storage locker, 5x5 with a really high
ceiling, piled to the ceiling. I never counted, but there are thousands.

In just 5 years the price of the unit has gone from $92 to $143. My best
friend lives out in San Bernadino County and she says the units are so
much cheaper there, so we may move everything around the holidays. And
go through the books to find the ones I want here at home (mostly to
re-read), which to give away, and which to store.

And then I'd like to take the books that I have here at home and don't
want to store, plus the books from storage that I want, and buy several
of these:

http://www.hsn.com/home-solutions/or...tional-rack_p-
6743973_xp.aspx

I also think I'd rather have a couple of those instead of chests of
drawers for my sweaters and other knits that can 't be hung up. Getting
the books in the boxes on the floor of the closets will help, too.
Imagine having room on the closet floor for my shoes!!


Just think...they will ALL fit on a single SD card, with room to spare.

Can you take your SD card into the bathtub with you?

Can you fold over a corner of your SD card to mark a page?


I never to that to my books.

That's what the receipt from the store is for. B-)


Does your SD card come with the sight, the sound, the smell of
paper, ink and glue?
Can you zoom in on the text in a printed book?

What do you do with your SD card in ten or twenty years' time
when software has moved on so much that its contents have become
inaccessible?
You copy it to each new format. Don't they teach you anything these
days?

One thing about books - the retrieval technology doesn't change.

OTOH, converting from one media to the new media has been a
problem going back to the invention of papyrus. "What are we going
to do with all these clay tablets?"
--
pyotr
Go not to the Net for answers, for it will tell you Yes and no. And
you are a bloody fool, only an ignorant cretin would even ask the
question, forty two, 47, the second door, and how many blonde lawyers
does it take to change a lightbulb.