/lit/ - Literature

>mfw people who make books actually try to sell them

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A recent report in the US Chronicle of Higher Education described how professor Alexander Halavais, frees up space in his cramped Manhattan apartment: he slices the binding off each book and puts the loose stack of paper in an automatic scanner.

The images are saved on his computer and undergo an optical character recognition process to make the files searchable. Halavais then bins the pages.

He plans to keep only 500 of his 3,000 paper books, and consult the rest digitally.

The report triggered an outcry among readers, who responded using words such as “abhorrent,” “cannibalism” or “like murdering friends.”

Halavais himself acknowledged in a blog post that he felt “blasphemous” just describing the process.

http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/lifeandtimes/digitizing-books-to-save-space-raises-literatis-cries-of
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>your face when you begin to realize that the average person on /lit/, no matter how ignorant, is still smarter than the average person off the street