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3330730 No.3330730 [Reply] [Original]

http://1dollarscan.com/

Send off your books and get them professionally scanned for only $1

Only problem is they'll trash the books in the process, and you get a PDF I guess you'd have to OCR yourself.

>> No.3330737

This is an abomination to my fetishism.

Kill yourself.

>> No.3330745

Actually they do OCR.

>> No.3330751
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3330751

>Only problem is they'll trash the books in the process

>> No.3330755

This is like sending in your collection of vinyl for digitization. The only problem is they smash the records to pieces.

>> No.3330761

Oh great, I always wanted to not have the books I paid for and a crappy PDF. We truly live in the best of times.

>> No.3330766

But I already have my books...

>> No.3330775

They don't trash the books.
They sell them, those crafty bastards.

>> No.3330879

>>3330755
Who cares? The only reason you'd do that is if you were throwing out your record player anyway.

pBooks are a pain in the ass. I MUCH prefer to read ebooks.

p.s. pretty sure they would have to trash the books, since the spines would be gone.

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3330883

>Only problem is they'll trash the books in the process

>> No.3330885

>>3330879

Why are paper books a pain in the ass? I've been reading them comfortably for thirty five years

>> No.3330900

>>3330885
>I've been reading them comfortably for thirty five years

No, you haven't. You don't know what comfort is.

>> No.3330904

>>3330885
Are big/heavy to carry around. Require constant repositioning when reading in poor light, and when I want to e.g. read on my side in bed. I'm stuck with the often shitty type/layout choice the book came in. No dictionary unless you suggest carrying a giant real dictionary around too. Don't work at all in the dark vs. the new frontlit readers...

Only thing that isn't better on an ereader currently is lack of real footnotes (don't know why nobody seems to have implemented this - Microsoft Word can reflow text with footnotes just fine - but you always get endnotes), and obviously no good for picture books if you're talking eink. But then picture books are for plebs/children, and authors really shouldn't write such that inline footnotes are necessary... although unfortunately this is very often the case.

>> No.3330905

>>3330900

Excuse me? As a middle class citizen of the modern western world, I've got a pretty good idea of what that word might entail.

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3330907

>technofascism

>> No.3330910

>>3330904

Books are pretty easy to carry around. Stop reading in shitty light. Who cares about type? Who needs a dictionary? Why do you need to read in the dark?

>> No.3330916

>>3330910
Only small paperbacks are easy to carry around. I read in shitty light all the time. I care about type. I use a dictionary because I don't read young adult like you. I read in the dark all the time, whether in bed or outside.

>> No.3330930

>>3330904

On my e-reader, when there is a footnote, I just press the footnote number and it takes me to the footnote. Then I press back and it takes me back. fucken magic.

Also, hardbacks>e-books>paperbacks

>> No.3330945

>>3330930
They all do this, provided the book is coded correctly, but it sucks. I'd much much prefer to display footnotes at the bottom of the page, since I'm usually too lazy to click the reference, and it interrupts my reading flow. Or at least have them show in a popup or something when I click the reference.

>> No.3330951

>>3330945

I usually have the same issue with paper books, though. But with an e-reader I don't have to hold an extra finger in the back where the footnotes are, which is a huge comfort.

>> No.3330963

>>3330951
I think you are talking end-notes. In a real book, I figure end-notes are really optional, because they're buried at the back, but FOOTnotes are really meant to be read along with the main text, but the way most ebooks are converted it treats them all as endnotes.

p.s. I find this really aggravating because I read a lot of academic non-fiction where foot-notes can often end up as a large fraction of most pages.

>> No.3330972

>>3330963

Oh. Yes, same here. But a lot of the books I've read recently have had endnotes rather than footnotes, even though they are important. I guess it might be because they would take way too much space if put on the actual pages.

>> No.3331472

>>3330730
Though I dislike that they ruin the books in the process, I must say that their business model is actually quite brilliant.

I wonder how much money they get from recycling the paper. It must be a nice hefty sum.

>> No.3331496

>>3331472
Depends what the market is.

I believe this sort of thing is already popular in Japan, where people have no room to store books so they get this done.