Project Mybrary

Project Mybrary
What is a Mybrary?

Mybrary is the contraction of "My Library". It is a listing of all of the books that I possess in the city of Mifgash (Toronto). The Mybrary also lists the books' authors and short descriptions of the books' content, and is broken down by category for ease of use. If you are interested in borrowing any of the books in the Mybrary, just e-mail me with the request, and I'll be happy to share the wealth of knowledge with a friend.

Why a Mybrary?

For so many reasons: you buy a book, you read it, you enjoy it... what happens next? Usually, it sits on a bookshelf for the next 50 years. How sad. Just another example of our throw-away commodity culture. Why not pass the book on to a friend? Well, because the friend of yours that would love to read the book doesn't know that you have it. Or because they don't know that that book, on exactly that particular topic they want to know more about, even exists!
There are computer programs for exchanging music and movies: Napster, Audiogalaxy, Kazaa, etc. Why not exchange texts, too? All it takes is for you to go through your library once, copying down the title and author of every book, and jotting down a one-sentence summary of each, then entering that info into a spreadsheet program like (a pirated copy of) Microsoft Excel, and exporting the file into an HTML webpage. And voila! Upload it and you've got your own Mybrary up and running!

Eventually, I foresee lots of people putting their own Mybraries up on the net, and then linking them together into "Ourbraries". A person could enter a search string of any kind and instantaneously receive a list of all the books that contain that string in the title name, author name, or description, in any of the linked Mybraries. Then the searcher would simply send off an e-mail request for the book to the owner -- oops, sorry, I mean MYBRARIAN -- of the appropriate Mybrary.
Cool, huh? Um, yeah, but... isn't this basically exactly the same as the computer catalogue system that they have running at the local public library? Er... yeah. That's the point. To turn our dead libraries into live ones! (And to turn us from propertarian hoarders into dispossessed anarchists!)

Why the name "Mybrary"?

You think the name "Mybrary" is whack? Er, um, well... yeah. If you have any other ideas for a name for the project, I'm open to them. But I didn't want the project to just sit on the shelf for another few months while I rack my brain for the perfect name for it. So, at least for the time being, Mybrary it is.

And the moral of our little story here is: Screw Shakespeare -- a borrower and a lender, be!

Enter David Sheen's Mybrary

Project Mybrary What is a Mybrary?
Mybrary is the contraction of "My Library". It is a listing of all of the books that I possess in the city of Mifgash (Toronto). The Mybrary also lists the books' authors and short descriptions of the books' content, and is broken down by category for ease of use.	If you are interested in borrowing any of the books in the Mybrary, just e-mail me with the request, and I'll be happy to share the wealth of knowledge with a friend.
Why a Mybrary?
For so many reasons: you buy a book, you read it, you enjoy it... what happens next? Usually, it sits on a bookshelf for the next 50 years. How sad. Just another example of our throw-away commodity culture. Why not pass the book on to a friend? Well, because the friend of yours that would love to read the book doesn't know that you have it. Or because they don't know that that book, on exactly that particular topic they want to know more about, even exists! There are computer programs for exchanging music and movies: Napster, Audiogalaxy, Kazaa, etc. Why not exchange texts, too? All it takes is for you to go through your library once, copying down the title and author of every book, and jotting down a one-sentence summary of each, then entering that info into a spreadsheet program like (a pirated copy of) Microsoft Excel, and exporting the file into an HTML webpage. And voila! Upload it and you've got your own Mybrary up and running!	Eventually, I foresee lots of people putting their own Mybraries up on the net, and then linking them together into "Ourbraries". A person could enter a search string of any kind and instantaneously receive a list of all the books that contain that string in the title name, author name, or description, in any of the linked Mybraries. Then the searcher would simply send off an e-mail request for the book to the owner -- oops, sorry, I mean MYBRARIAN -- of the appropriate Mybrary. Cool, huh? Um, yeah, but... isn't this basically exactly the same as the computer catalogue system that they have running at the local public library? Er... yeah. That's the point. To turn our dead libraries into live ones! (And to turn us from propertarian hoarders into dispossessed anarchists!)
Why the name "Mybrary"?
You think the name "Mybrary" is whack? Er, um, well... yeah. If you have any other ideas for a name for the project, I'm open to them. But I didn't want the project to just sit on the shelf for another few months while I rack my brain for the perfect name for it. So, at least for the time being, Mybrary it is.	And the moral of our little story here is: Screw Shakespeare -- a borrower and a lender, be!