{"id":137,"date":"2004-06-13T17:06:29","date_gmt":"2004-06-13T17:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advancedmedialab.wordpress.com\/2004\/06\/13\/108759415742002719\/"},"modified":"2004-06-13T17:06:29","modified_gmt":"2004-06-13T17:06:29","slug":"108759415742002719","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"108759415742002719"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>One can never have enough books&#8230; ok maybe not.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After kindly being <em>volunteered<\/em> by my better half with closing out the school year&#8230; we shuffled around all the books used by the students into the book room. After a few hours of counting, sorting, chucking damaged books and clearing the dust from our eyes I looked up at the tower of books and thought (out loud) why in the world aren&#8217;t these things on PDA yet!? LOL. I can&#8217;t believe that there isn&#8217;t a way to offer inexpensive PDA units to students in the school system with digital copies of these books. Setup some sort of digital distribution system and a one-size fits all PDA&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Granted not all books can be transferred (i.e. physics, math, et.al.) but all of those literature books, classics and modern, should be available in digital format.  I&#8217;ve done only a rough estimate of the amount of money that would be saved yearly from lost, damaged, mangled, abused books that get tossed by the wayside&#8230; we&#8217;re talking ~$150,000 a year based on a few schools, 24 selected works and a modest number of copies. It would seem that the school system has more power and influence then the publishing industry but unfortunately it doesn&#8217;t seem to work out that way. Then again, there are logistical conerns\/issues with using technology &#8211; but if there isn&#8217;t some sort of pilot program and system put into place to try this out then how is it ever going to go mainstream.<\/p>\n<p>For services rendered an old copy of Garrison Keiller&#8217;s &#8220;The Book of Guys&#8221; &#8211; Too funny&#8230; not sure if it was a slight on my part to get that from my wife. hehe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One can never have enough books&#8230; ok maybe not. After kindly being volunteered by my better half with closing out the school year&#8230; we shuffled around all the books used by the students into the book room. After a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onebitpixel.com\/aml\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}