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There are several programs to do this. One in the UK is he
http://www.smsprice.co.uk/cgi-bin/home.cgi Another US type has a dedicated little electronic gadget. You enter the ISBN and it gives you roughly the same information as the UK program does with a cell phone. I could not find their web page - I forgot the name long ago - but as I recall you bought the machine and also paid a monthly fee. Willow |
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Some Guy writes:
Allan Adler wrote: What is an Amazon scanner? Where does one get them? They are little hand-held devices that read a barcode on a book with an ISBN and displays what the going price is on Amazon. I've seen them in the hands of people a few times at sales. OK, thanks for answering my questions. I've heard of iPods but not of iPhones. You're joking, right? Actually, no. I can't afford stuff like cell phones and iPods and Blackberries and don't bother reading about most discretionary consumer electronics. I figure that, no matter how good it seems, it will be obsolete in a couple of years and something else will be made to sound like a necessity. Dribs and drabs of information get to me anyway, e.g. news about copyright issues and iPods, but for the most part they are not part of my world. Generally speaking, I don't acquire consumer electronics except as gifts. For me, the fifth of a sawbuck is usually the limit of my impulse buying. But it is much more rewarding than most others: a movie is over in a couple of hours, but a book can entertain for days, months or even years, apart from whatever genuine utility it might have. Books are the best deal I know of. -- Ignorantly, Allan Adler * Disclaimer: I am a guest and *not* a member of the MIT CSAIL. My actions and * comments do not reflect in any way on MIT. Also, I am nowhere near Boston. |
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On Sep 17, 11:58 am, "spinach" wrote:
"Bill" wrote in message ups.com... You may be right, but I was using the "let's assume the poster is correct -- then what?" approach. Bilp, everyone in usenet wishes you would die. And yet you've never used the "let's assume the poster is correct -- then what?" theory to conclude you should blow your brains out. Why is that? Since you are wriggling around under a fake name, I can't tell the readers with absolute certainty about the last time I toasted you to a whining, squealing crisp for your ignorance and/or insolence (likely both!). Most of our readers no doubt realize that your churlish fantasy bears the stench of a posting by a vindictive "spankard" (flame war loser). Cheers. [Memo from the upstairs office.] |
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I'm just curious whether you saw enough of the screen to verify that
they weren't just looking books up to see their summaries and possibly what reviewers had said of them...? |
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