What do you think of the idea of a bootleg library
Like, I have physical books that I know to not be in libraries although they weren't expensive or anything, they're just ordinary but unnecessarily-hard-to-find books I hoarded
And I let people borrow them for a month
There aren't fees based on how many days but I ask that you refund me some $5 if you can't get the book back. Simple proof you donated the book somewhere is equally okay
My thoughts are this:
I have been building a catalog of concepts, book titles, and motifs in books
I usually work with a set of slightly older or off-beat things that poorly overlaps the set of things people are most familiar with — there are some exceptions, like when I analyze Deltarune and the cult following on that is pretty big
But if I let people approximately in range borrow the books — which aren't in the library — it would be like I made the library bigger
And people borrowing the books might edit the ontology project and make it easier to complete. At this moment I'm still prototyping some things and it's just me
(I sound weirdly like I am 60 years old or something and have never seen a Gen Z book. I'm only 31 years old)
#LithographicaConceptPad
Like, I have physical books that I know to not be in libraries although they weren't expensive or anything, they're just ordinary but unnecessarily-hard-to-find books I hoarded
And I let people borrow them for a month
There aren't fees based on how many days but I ask that you refund me some $5 if you can't get the book back. Simple proof you donated the book somewhere is equally okay
My thoughts are this:
I have been building a catalog of concepts, book titles, and motifs in books
I usually work with a set of slightly older or off-beat things that poorly overlaps the set of things people are most familiar with — there are some exceptions, like when I analyze Deltarune and the cult following on that is pretty big
But if I let people approximately in range borrow the books — which aren't in the library — it would be like I made the library bigger
And people borrowing the books might edit the ontology project and make it easier to complete. At this moment I'm still prototyping some things and it's just me
(I sound weirdly like I am 60 years old or something and have never seen a Gen Z book. I'm only 31 years old)
#LithographicaConceptPad
Psst. You're allowed to borrow the books and then use methods to put them on The Place
I call this phenomenon a Light Library
I will be sticking to Light over Shadow but mostly just because I don't have the time to put any of them on The Place
I call this phenomenon a Light Library
I will be sticking to Light over Shadow but mostly just because I don't have the time to put any of them on The Place
I can't do this right now but if I get to Australia it could become a real possibility
Think of it
With a wide enough constellation of people it would be easier to have books in range to get to you within a day
Maybe easier than a "real" library, compared with how far away the libraries with the actually-interesting books are where I live
With a wide enough constellation of people it would be easier to have books in range to get to you within a day
Maybe easier than a "real" library, compared with how far away the libraries with the actually-interesting books are where I live
Although the other part of this that makes it easier is... this library would be oddly "focused" on a few topics
It would be trying to have this sort of, "efficient coverage" of a few things the ontology project is studying instead of a lot of redundancy
That's not to say variety is forbidden, only that you could contribute those extra things but some things might not appear multiple times across the constellation
It would be trying to have this sort of, "efficient coverage" of a few things the ontology project is studying instead of a lot of redundancy
That's not to say variety is forbidden, only that you could contribute those extra things but some things might not appear multiple times across the constellation
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So I want to resurrect bop
(It's a MediaWiki-like thing that unlike MediaWiki is meant to have a very low footprint, practically "zero weight")
But I want to use it for something called SSRs (Space for Special Research)
These are mini ontology projects
The main ontology project has 10,000 Items or something and they all have a particular number that is universal to all members of the wiki
But an SSR has its own numbering so anything can go in it, because it mostly references itself (it can reference the main LithoGraphIca Items too)
So what I want to do is make it possible to put up arbitrary SSRs that can be used to track book barcodes for particular book locations in the library constellation
The bop stem is full of text files
The text files contain data tables
The data tables contain barcode numbers, book numbers, and what user has checked out the book
None of the text files contain address information, that gets exchanged privately somewhere else and you just keep the locations of your nearest constellation points in your room somewhere, not in the bop stems / "wiki pages"
I am not sure the stems / data tables even say who offers them — the great advantage is as long as they have a bar code identifying the unique object they don't really have to
This would be a library that organizes itself by individual book, not by library location
(It's a MediaWiki-like thing that unlike MediaWiki is meant to have a very low footprint, practically "zero weight")
But I want to use it for something called SSRs (Space for Special Research)
These are mini ontology projects
The main ontology project has 10,000 Items or something and they all have a particular number that is universal to all members of the wiki
But an SSR has its own numbering so anything can go in it, because it mostly references itself (it can reference the main LithoGraphIca Items too)
So what I want to do is make it possible to put up arbitrary SSRs that can be used to track book barcodes for particular book locations in the library constellation
The bop stem is full of text files
The text files contain data tables
The data tables contain barcode numbers, book numbers, and what user has checked out the book
None of the text files contain address information, that gets exchanged privately somewhere else and you just keep the locations of your nearest constellation points in your room somewhere, not in the bop stems / "wiki pages"
I am not sure the stems / data tables even say who offers them — the great advantage is as long as they have a bar code identifying the unique object they don't really have to
This would be a library that organizes itself by individual book, not by library location
imagine a MediaWiki User: page
in this case one with bright color-coded lists on it
now imagine you don't need MediaWiki to run it and it's just a folder of text files
no user account login. no database. you have the flat wiki page. and the rendered one.
the only drawback is it's for one person to edit, not several
that's a bop stem
in this case one with bright color-coded lists on it
now imagine you don't need MediaWiki to run it and it's just a folder of text files
no user account login. no database. you have the flat wiki page. and the rendered one.
the only drawback is it's for one person to edit, not several
that's a bop stem