04-24-2013, 11:01 AM | #16 |
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It depends how much you think your time is worth... a lot of ebooks can be had for like 5 bucks ....scanning even a short book can take a long time and then there is the whole ocr thing... I only did it once for a text book that was out of print.... never again.. I ended up scanning the thing into image format as a pdf... ended up as a 100mb monster and it took me the whole day and then some... do a google for the books you want you may be surprised at what you can fund
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04-24-2013, 08:24 PM | #17 | |
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As for googling, I remember finding a couple titles through the Open Library, but they were awful. I cleaned one up and proofread, but honestly, would have been faster to scan and OCR from the start myself. Most of the titles I want are fairly obscure, aren't likely to come to ebook form soon, if ever, and because the print versions are so rare, pirate versions tend not to exist. Anyway, I'm a re-reader, and digitizing a few titles for my library has become a fun hobby. It's definitely not for everyone! |
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04-25-2013, 02:15 AM | #18 |
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Most of the books I like to read are out of print. Most of the scans floating around are done so poorly, that I gladly put in the time to do it myself. If I would read the poor one, I would not have a good reading experience and it would be a distraction from the story.
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04-25-2013, 02:44 AM | #19 |
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Yes, I'm also talking about books long out of print that I wanted to reread. Of course if it's available anywhere in ebook format, I'd buy that and not do a scan. And if it's a poor quality ebook, I'll fix it. Like Toxaris said, it really detracts from the book when you're struggling with ugly or bad formatting and I don't enjoy reading that way.
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04-25-2013, 05:19 AM | #20 | |
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These are luckily quick to amend, but I've also seen laziness like obviously unprocessed OCR input in retail epubs. |
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