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idea: you know how libraries have ways too look up books in other libraries so you can loan them out even if your local branch doesn't have a copy? what if we extended that so that individual people could sign up, and catelogue their own books so they could more easily be shared. so someone could go to the library to find d&d books and instead of being disappointed they could digitally request my Book of Vile Darkness or whatever and i'd bring it by the branch for them to pick up.
@juliebean
Librarything (https://www.librarything.com/) could probably be leveraged as a pivot point for this. Disclaimer: my mother was a librarian, my wife was a librarian until her fibro forced her to resign, and I was a library worker in college. In the USA, personal lending of books doesn't require licensing as long as there's no money involved.
@FASA_Andrew_1879 @juliebean In the US, first-sale doctrine means you can do whatever you want with whatever physical media you own: loan it, sell it, rent it, whatever, and the copyright holder can't do anything about it
@james
So then yeah, private library based on your holdings on Librarything. The question then becomes how to bridge from the public library's catalog search engine to Librarything opted in users by passing search criteria and geolocation.
@juliebean
@juliebean that's hecking amazing
@juliebean
Yes yes! This is something I keep thinking, a federated library. It wouldn't even need a blockchain ;) but maybe some way to share updates, like a git repo. I'd love to work this out one day. How do we start? *When* do we start?
@juliebean this is kinda how IPFS federation works, except the books all have titles like QmY7GAExYqoty36cmaWbU28u7JbAtYPHcBxzZgE6rH6vk2