[Informatics] BookCrossing - Labels

[Andrew Shortell]

you can also personally hand books over

It is interesting that Mark never used “mark sense cards”
It was only ten years ago that I “disposed” of about 3 metres of them (that is stacked) - that was just one program

Recently put a “spinning HDD” in the little display case at work - spinning is so last decade 


Danger: old computer man story :  When I purchased my first mac I upgraded teh HDD before I even walked from teh shop for just $200 (a lot of money in 1991 )
I went from 40 MB to 60 MB  yes Virginia I did write MegaByte

A year later I upgraded teh RAM for another $200  from 128KB to 512KB  (yes KiloByte)


I am just so pleased we have moved on from those sort of prices and sizes



Andrew Shortell
Educator
CRC Melton


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> On 30 Dec 2015, at 3:42 pm, ken price <kenjprice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Indeed Mark - and now we are also seeing cloud data being "lost" as teachers retire and/or die, without a record of where their data lives.
> 
> In some cases project or class data is in some secure cloud service, but where and via what access process is not alway clear.
> 
> In relation to the original story - if you happen to use bookcrossing, maybe try some of the less obvious ways to hand on your books - leave them on a bus or train, at the beach, a mountain hut, a youth hostel or homeless shelter.
>  
> 
> kp
> 
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Mark <mark at vceit.com <mailto:mark at vceit.com>> wrote:
> It's ironic that while the printed book may well last longer than we will, the metadata about it at bookcrossing.com <http://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 <mailto: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 <http://www.bookcrossing.com/> via @arran4
> 
> Regards Roland
> 
>> http://www.bookcrossing.com/labels <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 <http://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?
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