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[spaceboy]

Barcode found in Pattern Recognition

[DreamOfTheRood]

That book has what I consider to be the most beautiful sentence in the English language. You'll know it when you get to it. Call your library and see if they put it there. That should ease your conscience.

[xnbomb]

Sort of Interesting

[spaceboy]

The tag I found looks exactly like the one in the picture above, apart from the numbers that is. I guess it means nothing unless the thing about the number showing up in a number of different books turns out to be some kind of conspiracy or something

[Varin]

When I worked at the library back in my college days I was the one who put these in books and magazines. Some had bar codes and some where just white. They came in a huge roll and all of them on the roll, if of the barcoded variety, had the same exact number underneath the bar code. The bar codes weren't scanned or anything. For books, we never put them on one of the pages. We'd either put them inside the cover or under the dust jacket. For magazines, we'd put one on the cover and then sneak a few inside on some pages to thwart those who thought they were smart when they ripped off the cover to try and steal the rest of the magazine. My guess is that Pattern Recognition is a book that is often swiped from your particular library so they put one inside for extra insurance.

[GMonger]

Sticking them on people is without a doubt the best use possible for them. At the last bookstore I worked at that had a security system (other than me trying to look big and angry), not only was I a manager, with access to as many as needed, I was also the manager stationed closest to the exit, so in charge of security "situations". It was especially fun the evenings I was one of the two closing managers.

Those were the days

[AliasNode00]

[Varin]

[togmkn]

I've heard of this before. Hold it up to the light. What's it say? It should have a watermark or something like that.

[Andhra Pori]

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