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Wiredfire

@ernie There was a service that tried to do this for a while, you had to write a message in the book and send photo as evidence and it used that to determine one book = one ebook. Naturally publishers hated this idea and the whole thing fell apart fairly quickly 😠

28 June at 21:06 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mstdn.social
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Jessamyn

@wiredfire @ernie I have never heard of that "write a message in the book to prove ownership" thing and as a librarian who has also worked at Open Library, I am very curious, Do you remember what it was called?

28 June at 21:31 | Open on glammr.us
Wiredfire

@jessamyn @ernie it was called “Shelfie”. All gone and burried now but this is an article that touches on how it worked from the end user point of view:

time.com/4146187/shelfie-app-f

28 June at 21:34 | Open on mstdn.social
Jessamyn
Dana McFarland

@wiredfire @jessamyn @ernie I remember some mystification and discussion about names on the tp verso when examples of these started surfacing as discards. There were other apps that worked the same way.
adweek.com/galleycat/take-a-sh

30 June at 14:56 | Open on mastodon.social
Dana McFarland

@wiredfire @jessamyn @ernie iirc there was also at least one case of a library reporting that they had this strange form of vandalism occur, where a name would be found on the tp verso.
That would seem not very well thought through.

30 June at 15:00 | Open on mastodon.social
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