The Home Library Problem Solved 328
Zack Grossbart writes "About 18 months ago I posted the following question to Ask Slashdot: 'How do you organize a home library with 3,500 books?' I have read all the responses, reviewed most of the available software, and come up with a good solution described in the article The Library Problem. This article discusses various cataloging schemes, reviews cheap barcode scanners, and outlines a complete solution for organizing your home library. Now you can see an Ask Slashdot question with a definitive answer."
Library problem unsolved: Add kids (Score:3, Interesting)
We have approx 3000 books in the house as well as two kids. Dewey-ish classification works fine for us, splitting the books into groups according to their Dewey hundreds (0-99.999, 100-1999.999,...). However we have had to break out some special sections. Robots, programming and electronics have a special area together (breaking Dewey boundaries). All the fishing related stuff goes together (including studies of aquatic instects etc). All the craft books go together (well Dewey does that anyway).
No computer needed.
Our system (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:IP business model (Score:3, Interesting)
Uhm, well, yes. Is there anything wrong with it? You don't say, that there is, but I feel, you imply it...
True, but, again, there is nothing obviously wrong with the situation... In fact, I think, this would be a considerable improvement. If the content-creator (or whoever they sell their creations to) is paid every time the creation is read/watched/listened, the system would be much better at rewarding good creations and punishing the bad ones. It is doing so already, but the technological/legal advances you are forecasting promise to make it much less crude.
In books it is especially unfair, because the author's reward is determined only by the amount of first sales. This means, a book that stays in a family for generations and one, that's thrown out after the first read, reward their authors equally and cost their readers the same... At least, with videos the authors/makers get something every time a movie is rented.