very curious

I stopped and got some groceries yesterday on the way home. The checker was very chatty, It wasn't until I got home that I was so distracted by his chattiness that I didn't notice he'd left half a dozen items out of my order: they were neither bagged nor (thankfully) rung up. So I have no milk, no bread, no strawberries or blueberries, no paper towels. I didn't pay for them either, but that's not quite the point. I now have to stop again sometime and get them, and it won't be convenient to do so for a couple of days. I'm really quite annoyed at "Randy" (as my receipt informs me he is named). I'm also slightly baffled; if he didn't scan those items and bag them, where did they go?

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Oh, good lord! Observing a nuclear blast from below.

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I am, apparently, poised to go from the short route to peace and enlightenment to the long and arduous one.

That figures. :-)

that's a shame!

I surveyed a lot of library apps for regular computers, and none of them seem to have linked iPhone apps.

Now I've found some surveys of iPhone personal library apps, and none of them seem to have links to conventional computer apps.

I find my iPhone a useful tool to access some things in a limited way when I don't have access to a computer. But I in no way see it as a *substitute* for my regular laptop. If I'm home, for instance, cataloguing my library, I don't want to have to struggle with the tiny screen and limited interface of the iPhone. But I also don't want to have to carry my laptop with me when I go to the bookstore.

If I were more of a RDBS designer (and, most importantly, programmer), I would solve this by whipping up a tool of my own. As it is, I will just have to whinge that I have a need that does not seem to be met by the currently available tools.

ETA: OK, I've found one (1) program that seems to provide the combination I want, called Clz Books. Anyone used it? It would appear to cost $0 to $60 to do all the things I want, which seems a little steep for an app.