return books to the library
An undergraduate has developed an open source application that reminds students to return books to the library Are you one of those who tend to borrow several books from the library but never seem to remember the due date for turning them in? Pritesh Sankhe, a student of B.Tech at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (IITGN) always forgot to return books at the library and ended up paying late-fines. Once when he had to cough up a fine of Rs. 300, he decided to do something about it. Being a techie, he created a mobile phone application to alert him of the due date. Realising the usefulness of the tool, he circulated an alpha version of it amongst college mates for feedback and that resulted in an open source android application that he calls Book Overflow. He wrote the script for the application, connected it with the IITGN library software SOUL and made it available to everyone in the institute to download and use for free. Explain...