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Old 11-11-2010, 05:00 PM   #1
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I found this application, PaperBack, and found it amusing: it allows you to use paper as a data storage device - print virtually any electronic document and then scan it back again!
I wonder: would anyone be game to store their ebooks on paper?
http://www.ollydbg.de/Paperbak/index.html
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Old 11-11-2010, 10:03 PM   #2
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What would be the point?
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Old 11-11-2010, 10:34 PM   #3
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What would be the point?
Looks like it prints them encrypted and condensed, so that ~500kb of data will fit on a single page; it can later be scanned & decrypted. Storing an entire ebook on a page or two could be a useful way to set up an archive. Could have a binder with an entire library of books.

I suppose it's one more way to store backups? One that doesn't worry about hard drive crashes? (Just water, fire, moths and three-year-olds with fingerpaints.)
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Old 11-11-2010, 10:44 PM   #4
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couldnt you "print" it to pdf then store that as a digital file? then an entire book could be kept on one digital page. then you could encypt and condense that page....
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Old 11-11-2010, 11:17 PM   #5
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couldnt you "print" it to pdf then store that as a digital file? then an entire book could be kept on one digital page. then you could encypt and condense that page....
Could, but you wouldn't be saving any space. Converting the HTML file of Doctorow's Little Brother, ~750kb, became a 3mb, 2-pg pdf. It doesn't condense, because it's already sharply condensed data--it's just greyscale pixels, lots and lots of them.
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Old 11-11-2010, 11:51 PM   #6
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For a minute I thought this was a tongue in cheek thing about a new way to store ebooks in book format! LOL.
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Old 11-12-2010, 03:21 AM   #7
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You *did* read the very first sentence on the webpage?

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Old 11-12-2010, 08:57 AM   #8
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Yeah, this is just an example of some programmer's attempt to recapture the magic of IP Over Avian Carriers....
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Old 11-12-2010, 09:50 AM   #9
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He missed the boat. He should have designed it for colour printers and he could have achieved a much higher density of data per square inch.
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It might also open up the next "analog loophole"
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