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Auto Book Retriever

Category: Books
Responses: 5 (3 in support, 0 neutral, 2 in opposition)
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Similar to the way tape silos work in a computer room, why not have a robotic device for books in a library that will retrieve a book based on request (submitted by computer, as most libraries have computers). Idea can be extrapolated to other uses as well.

latco01, Sep 26 2003

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Such a system already exists.

The downside: the Northridge earthquake zeroed the computer index, and no one knew where any of the books were.

davetrow, Oct 03 2003

I think that would be a great idea

charlie22, Oct 26 2005

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