[HN Gopher] Making my bookshelves clickable
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Making my bookshelves clickable
Author : JNRowe
Score : 17 points
Date : 2024-02-15 08:58 UTC (2 days ago)
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| moonlitzxspec wrote:
| This is a nice time saving tool for "minimalist" information
| hoarding. A pet project of mine is to thin out my bookshelf only
| to books I regularly reach for and store "never going to read"
| books out of sight.
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| The idea is, if I can save the details of the "never going to
| read books" and acquire a digital copy of them, it may be easier
| for me to psychologically let go of the physical copy and gain
| the storage space again.
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| I was going to take a photo of my crowded bookshelves and
| manually put the ISBN and titles into a spreadsheet. Keeping the
| photos simply for extra reference. Your project making the photo
| clickable is a great bridge between the data and artifact.
| miniatureape wrote:
| I would really love a control-f for the real world.
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| Imagine you have a list of wines you want to try, or used books
| you're hoping to buy.
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| In the store you open your phone and scan the shelves with your
| camera and if it finds any matches from your lists, it shows you
| them on the screen.
| pjmorris wrote:
| Same. I've imagined 'spines.com' for books, where the work of
| linking book spines to ISBN's, etc, has been crowdsourced and
| you can point your phone camera at a shelf and look up reviews,
| etc.
| Imnimo wrote:
| Would it make sense to have the user click and then use that
| point as a SAM prompt? It might let you find a book even if the
| initial SAM query doesn't find it.
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