[LINK] iPads

[Richard Chirgwin]

Kimberley Heitman wrote:
>> Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>>     
>>> Question from the floor, without notice
>>>
>>> What are e-books and the iPad going to do to public and other libraries?
>>>       
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> Tom Worthington replied:
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>   
>> Good question, but perhaps a better one is:
>>
>> What are public and other libraries going to do with e-books and the iPad?
>>     
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> They can be filed under 099 until they rust, then they're discarded. 
>   
OK. I'll bite. What's 099?

(I'm not a librarian; I suspect I've just missed a library joke).

Is it like moving a file to /dev/null?

RC
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