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Making my bookshelves clickable

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Re: Making my bookshelves clickable

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Post by zerojames »

greggsy wrote: post #8

What I would really like is a tool that takes a video or series of photos, and automatic catalogues the contents. This would be nice from a ‘document all the things’ perspective, but really, really convenient in case of a fire or theft claim. If you haven’t already, I strongly urge everyone reading this comment to stand up and do a video walkthrough of your house, today . Do all of your book spines, jewellery, DVDs,…

You may like "Writing documentation for your house", written by hsiao.dev, and its corresponding HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38444577.

Re: Making my bookshelves clickable

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Post by KTibow »

miniatureape wrote: post #3

I would really love a control-f for the real world. Imagine you have a list of wines you want to try, or used books you’re hoping to buy. In the store you open your phone and scan the shelves with your camera and if it finds any matches from your lists, it shows you them on the screen.

Gemini can help with this but it has a large amount of overhead compared to dedicated models

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Post by abhgh »

moonlitzxspec wrote: post #2

This is a nice time saving tool for "minimalist" information hoarding. A pet project of mine is to thin out my bookshelf only to books I regularly reach for and store "never going to read" books out of sight. The idea is, if I can save the details of the "never going to read books" and acquire a digital copy of them, it may be easier for me to psychologically let go of the physical copy and gain the storage space aga…

This is interesting. For me it seems like me not reaching out for books is a consequence of lazy "rotation", i.e., these are the same books I'd eventually find time to read if I could see them around often enough, so when I have some leisure I don't forget about them.

Anyway this is our (my wife and mine) hypothesis - so we are currently working on rotating books, let's see how that works out : - )

Re: Making my bookshelves clickable

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Post by maroonblazer »

While watching an interview recently, where the interviewee was sitting in front of their bookshelf, I was trying to discern the book titles to add to my reading list. I screenshotted the person/bookshelf and tried asking ChatGPT+/GPT4 to list all the books. It could only identity a tiny fraction.

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Post by enos_feedler »

greggsy wrote: post #8

What I would really like is a tool that takes a video or series of photos, and automatic catalogues the contents. This would be nice from a ‘document all the things’ perspective, but really, really convenient in case of a fire or theft claim. If you haven’t already, I strongly urge everyone reading this comment to stand up and do a video walkthrough of your house, today . Do all of your book spines, jewellery, DVDs,…

its also good for airbnb hosts who want to decide if anything is missing from guests

Re: Making my bookshelves clickable

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Post by lights0123 »

cxr wrote: post #17

HTML has image maps. It's been there since longer than many of the people who might read this post have even been alive. You don't need SVG and JS for this.

It is certainly odd that they didn't use them, especially since image maps are mentioned at the beginning of the article.

Re: Making my bookshelves clickable

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Post by buildsjets »

miniatureape wrote: post #3

I would really love a control-f for the real world. Imagine you have a list of wines you want to try, or used books you’re hoping to buy. In the store you open your phone and scan the shelves with your camera and if it finds any matches from your lists, it shows you them on the screen.

Apple iOS does this, kindasorta, but it's not real time. It does text recognition on text on images in your photostream, and you can search for text in your photos using the search bar.
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