Archivist Has Not Learned of TV Show Hoarders; Tries to Collect Every Book

In a move that would make the Library of Congress blush, archivist Brewster Kahle is attempting to collect a copy of every book in print.  Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, has collected about 500,000 books so far.
Dude, think about this.  Alexandria burned.  The Library of Congress went crazy and decided to collect Twitter, of all things.  Sean Connery and Chrisian Slater had to fight evil monks.  Hoarding books like this cannot end well, trust me.  All you are going to end up with is a warehouse full of crates of books that we will have to play campfire with when the robots take over after the greenhouse effect turns half of us into zombies. 

Heyyyyy... maybe you are on to something, Kahle ole pal...

[courier-journal] has some cool pics of this project, too.

Wanna Read Shelves With Your Phone?

 

See the future!

A computer science professor in Ohio has developed an Android augmented reality app that will read a shelf of books and tell if they are in order or not.  Using a QR type label above the call number of the books, the phone's camera picks up the info on each item, does some number crunching, and shows the viewer which items are out of place.  Kinda like a "this one is not like the others" but all visual (see above).

Hit the jump for a video of the app at work.

Fast Company