SFist: CoCo County Bart Stations to Receive ATM-Like Library Book Machines

pepelicious

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:18:25 -0800

Can they just stock those with half pint refills of schmirnoff? A book isn't going to help me forget that I just paid $4 to be stuck inside a stinky metal tube for the next hour... just saying.

iBarna

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:45:14 -0800

Please. As someone who rides BART twice a day, I wish they would take that money and use it to clean the interiors of cars. I don't think that the lack of reading material for passengers is such a big problem that it needed to be solved with expensive robotics. And if the CCCL doesn't have more pressing problems to solve either, then they need their funding cut and redirected toward something more useful.

icbalaam

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:46:52 -0800

For $50K I'll hide in that machine and make beep-beep-beep noises before dropping the wanted book into the bin.

katerose26

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:33:01 -0800

Wait, we're supposed to RETURN the books? Oops...

Leanne

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:14:54 -0800

I think that's a great idea. Well played, Librarians! But, yeah, it would have been nice for them to come up with some sort of date to expect this to happen. So bureaucratic of them. I hope SF will follow suit...

underachieving

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:11:09 -0800

And how much would it cost to hire a semi-retarded shlub to man a counter where he/she handed you one of four hundred books you wanted to check out, instead of automating the process for $100K?

OrangeDrink

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:44:48 -0800

I like press releases that don't give you information like dates. I like those a lot.