I’ve been thinking about something Dinah mentioned. Public libraries are great. And Amazon wish lists are great, too. Wouldn’t it be great2 if someone could write a little program that could search online public library databases within a certain radius from our homes to see if any of our wish list books are available at the library? Have at it, webgeeks!! (In fact, it sounds like a job for that brainy pb).
Take a look at http://www.infoworld.com/articles/ap/xml/03/01/06/030106apapps.xml
I’ve started mapping out such a program for my own usage. It would assume you could specify your library.
Could you explain this in more detail?
This seems something we could add to our project (see http://dev.bookstash.org/) with the help of Jon Udell’s LibraryLookup service