[TML] Selling Traveller magazines on Ebay

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 7/9/08 1:26 AM, "shadow at shadowgard.com" <shadow at shadowgard.com> wrote:

> On 8 Jul 2008 at 23:18, Jerry W Barrington wrote:
> 
>> One of these days, my finances will be straightened out enough to get an
>> Intel Mac.  Right now, my computer is 6 years old.  I could probably run
>> eLibPro in Virtual PC, but that's really a last-ditch effort.  Few programs
>> are worth the effort.  And I still don't have a barcode scanner...
> 
> You can type in the ISBN (from the back cover of all but the oldest
> books, I actually managed to enter the one from the pocket dictionary
> I got back around 1970)

I notice most of the barcodes these days *are* the ISBN.  Don't know how
long that's been true.  I do have some older books, 60's and back, but not
many.

>> Ultimately, all I really need is something I can easily print out (in
>> *really* small font size) to take with me when I go book shopping.  Helps
>> keep me from buying a book again, and reminds me of series and authors I
>> already have some of.
> 
> I passed the point where paper would do back in the 1980s. If I do
> that, I'd have to "print" the list to a file and load it into my Dana
> (a palm pilot clone with wifi and a decent keyboard and screen)
> 
> An Asus Eeee is what I'd get instead if I was doing it now.

Yeah, Steve mentioned the PDAs, and I'm thinking about it.  I'm sure it
would be more useful in many ways than several pages of 5 or 6 point type.
:)  Of course, I'm seeing those Eees running $300-500.  That's a bit more
than I want to get in to.  Music, videos, ebooks, misc. documents, Skype;
card reader, camera, speaker/mike...  I wonder if it plays nice with Mac?