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"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote:

(Doug Miller) fired this volley in news:hpf4vh$gv7$3
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And on the gripping hand, there's.... you.

AHAH! Another sci-fi fan! G

LLoyd

A while back in a search for space, I almost tossed my old paperbacks. I managed to toss
a few periodicals but I couldn't dump the books.

I need to create an index of my scifi and other books that have barcodes. I have a
scanner, I just need a way to turn the barcode data into an entry into a database of what
I have on hand.

I *hate* buying a book I have.

Wes
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government officials but my life isn't worth protecting at home
in their eyes." Dick Anthony Heller

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On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:28:23 -0400, Wes wrote:

"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote:

(Doug Miller) fired this volley in news:hpf4vh$gv7$3
:

And on the gripping hand, there's.... you.

AHAH! Another sci-fi fan! G

LLoyd

A while back in a search for space, I almost tossed my old paperbacks. I managed to toss
a few periodicals but I couldn't dump the books.

I need to create an index of my scifi and other books that have barcodes. I have a
scanner, I just need a way to turn the barcode data into an entry into a database of what
I have on hand.

I *hate* buying a book I have.

Wes


Chuckle..Ive got about 6000 books, of which probably 3000 are scifi
....another 1500 are military histories...and I have about 30 multiple
copies, from Heinlein, to Cardnal of the Kremlin....sigh

One book..Ive found 4 different copies of the same book....

Gunner, who hits second hand stores for books. Hardbacks for 35 cents
are a good deal..if you have room....





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about Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:52:29 -0700 did write/type or cause to
appear in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:28:23 -0400, Wes wrote:

"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote:

(Doug Miller) fired this volley in news:hpf4vh$gv7$3
:

And on the gripping hand, there's.... you.

AHAH! Another sci-fi fan! G

LLoyd

A while back in a search for space, I almost tossed my old paperbacks. I managed to toss
a few periodicals but I couldn't dump the books.

I need to create an index of my scifi and other books that have barcodes. I have a
scanner, I just need a way to turn the barcode data into an entry into a database of what
I have on hand.

I *hate* buying a book I have.

Wes


Chuckle..Ive got about 6000 books, of which probably 3000 are scifi
...another 1500 are military histories...and I have about 30 multiple
copies, from Heinlein, to Cardnal of the Kremlin....sigh

One book..Ive found 4 different copies of the same book....

Gunner, who hits second hand stores for books. Hardbacks for 35 cents
are a good deal..if you have room....

I dumped books last winter - had to go, I just need the space,
them out, etc ... now I'm hitting the second had stores to replace
some of them. Have to carry a list - I have volume 3, need two and
six - ha, there's the anthology!

Oh, and the other day, I bought four dollars worth of paperback -
and found a two dollar bill in one. One more reason to make sure you
remove all your bookmarks before disposing of books.
-
pyotr filipivich
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It's eight fifty eight. Close enough!

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Wes wrote:

"Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote:

(Doug Miller) fired this volley in news:hpf4vh$gv7$3
:

And on the gripping hand, there's.... you.

AHAH! Another sci-fi fan! G

LLoyd

A while back in a search for space, I almost tossed my old paperbacks. I managed to toss
a few periodicals but I couldn't dump the books.

I need to create an index of my scifi and other books that have barcodes. I have a
scanner, I just need a way to turn the barcode data into an entry into a database of what
I have on hand.

I *hate* buying a book I have.


See if you can find one of the old 'Cuecat' barcode readers. There
were hacks online to use it as a straight barcode reader.


--
Lead free solder is Belgium's version of 'Hold my beer and watch this!'

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pyotr filipivich wrote:

Oh, and the other day, I bought four dollars worth of paperback -
and found a two dollar bill in one. One more reason to make sure you
remove all your bookmarks before disposing of books.

Years ago, I was staying at a Comfort Suites when I was contracted to bring up the servers
from my old employer that had been stored so a guy from Deloitte and Touche could grab a
copy of the data on them for string analyisis. Bankruptcy stuff, I guess they were
looking for incriminating data.

I put a 5 spot in the book I was reading as a marker and when I made it back to my room, I
saw a note with thanks and a smiley face signed housekeeping. :(

I'm sure glad I didn't use a twenty.

Wes

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"Michael A. Terrell" wrote:

I *hate* buying a book I have.


See if you can find one of the old 'Cuecat' barcode readers. There
were hacks online to use it as a straight barcode reader.


I've been looking for an open source ISBN to title library. The bar codes seem to have
the ISBN number in the barcode iirc. It has a been a while since I looked into this so I
might be a bit off base.

Wes

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Wes wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote:

I *hate* buying a book I have.


See if you can find one of the old 'Cuecat' barcode readers. There
were hacks online to use it as a straight barcode reader.

I've been looking for an open source ISBN to title library. The bar codes seem to have
the ISBN number in the barcode iirc. It has a been a while since I looked into this so I
might be a bit off base.

Wes

You can enter the ISBN into ABEBOOKS, or a similar site to get data
on that item.


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Lead free solder is Belgium's version of 'Hold my beer and watch this!'