Think of how tough it can be to find a book, CD or tape in a mega-bookstore, or public library where many people are handling them and returning them haphazardly into places they don't belong. Or the many businesses, for instance, legal offices, which still use a huge amount of paper files and books. Each of these items could have a small electronic strip put into the spine and if it goes missing, the individual could enter it's code into a transmitter, which then causes the missing book, file, or whatever, to beep. The book store could have one of these stations at various locations throughout the store. If the inventory suggests that a book is actually somewhere in the store, but it's been misplaced, it could be found.
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The technology is kinda here now, as RFID, just that someone has to have the notion and funds to implement it.
Look for this in retail stores before public librarys.
Less beeping in this world is a good thing. I vote NO!
I too am concerned about adding more electronic beeping to the world. But I think it could at least be used by the employees of the book store or library after hours to help make their work easier. Who knows how many books which have been forever misfiled and are listed as "lost" which could be recovered?