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Originally Posted by evenstr
I thought the idea of the "scanning" for new books to be very interesting. It would still preserve that whole idea of "discovering" something among shelves of books that people (myself included) fear from going completely to ebooks. It could also potentially solve the problem of running out of books. If the store kept a display copy, then anyone with a device could just scan for it. I would be very, very intrigued by the idea of technology developing to the point shown in this video.
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i'd love to be able to do that too ; go to a bookstore, browse through the shelves, talk to the bookstore owner, and download whatever titles i'm interested in directly there. they could even set up accounts so that if there's a line, you don't have to wait to pay, you can just authorise the transaction online. and, if most of the paper books are display copies, they could have a lot more unique titles to discover, and if they don't have a paper copy of the one you want... it's not really a problem (no more waiting 3 weeks for the order). i think the technology is ready or almost ready for us to almost everything in the video ; we *could* (if all goes well) see it begin to happen really soon.