[Informatics] BookCrossing - Labels

[Mark]

It's ironic that while the printed book may well last longer than we will,
the metadata about it at bookcrossing.com will probably be gone within a
year or two.

(Waves cane in air)

We're heading for a new digital dark age
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_dark_age>, I tell you!  A new dark
age!

Try reading a 3.5" floppy disk today... even if you can find a drive to
read it, the disk is likely to be full of magnetic or physical errors.
Now try reading a 5.25" floppy: the motherboard port is extinct and try
finding a USB interface for the drive ... well, maybe there is one exception
<http://www.deviceside.com/fc5025.html>.
Even a PATA hard disk is virtually inaccessible in these days of SATA ports
and drives.
And what am I supposed to do with my roomful of punchcards from 1975
containing my database of songs by Captain and Tennille about Pet Rocks?

Where was I? (Puts down cane).  Nurse? I hope there's jelly for dessert
tonight. I like jelly.

Mark

On 30 December 2015 at 14:07, Roland Gesthuizen <rgesthuizen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Here is something that you can do with that old book after you have read
> it, before you toss them back into the wild for others to read and enjoy.
> Label it with a unique BookCrossing ID to track
> http://www.bookcrossing.com via @arran4
>
> Regards Roland
>
> http://www.bookcrossing.com/labels
>
>
> *BookCrossing - Labels*
>
>
> Labelling your books with a unique BookCrossing ID number (BCID) is vital
> to successful BookCrossing. The BCID you get for each book you register
> here will stay with the book for the rest of its natural life, which of
> course is probably longer than you or any of us will live. Anytime during
> that long, long future ahead of us that someone reads the book, then comes
> to www.bookcrossing.com and enters that BCID, they will be able to see
> the complete journal history of the book and make a new journal entry of
> their own. Cool, huh?
>
>
> --

Mark Kelly

mark at vceit.com
http://vceit.com
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