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My apologies! I think your efforts are valiant, recycledelectron,
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When I referred to illegetimi, I was referring to the copyright mafiAA. I hat it when someone is told they can not legally do something.
The only law should be to not deprive anyone of their life, liberty, or property, except in self defense or in the defense of an innocent person. Ripping a book that is not available as an eBooks is NOT wrong, as it does not deprive anyone of live, liberty, or property.
Telling someone to give up is very distasteful, as it discourages innovation. Innovation is what allows me to live in an air conditioned home, use PCs, and go hunting instead of getting eaten by big predators.
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but I don't think this is an activity for the faint at heart. If a 6.2 Mpixel image is not good enough for a textbook page, my heart flutters to imagine what is.
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Actually, the 6.2MP camera works fine when correctly focused, but the auto-focus causes me problems. It will get 2/3 of the page fine, but the print near the edge ia a problem when taking in a large page. Therefore, a 6MP DSLR or a 9MP point-and-shoot should work on the worst text books.
Digital cameras are dropping in price so fast, that if the camera's price fazes you, wait a semester and they will be cheaper.
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And "paging" through a book by flipping between jpegs that total 1 Gbyte or more has me swooning. I'm glad this works for you but this won't for me - ever. I need a process that is a lot less intense and time-consuming.
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I can photo 500 pages an hour. Then, they copy at a rate of several thousand pages and hour to my PC via USB from a card reader. During that time, I can rename them. This is necessary because I snap pics of the odd pages first, and then do the even pages. After I rename them with the page number as the name, they fall in alphabetical order.
It takes a day or two over a weekend to digitize all my text books for that semester, so count off maybe 2 weekends a year to relive myself of carrying a dozen text books at a time. Instead, I'm the one with the tiny notepad-sized case.
My personal library beats the university library, and fits in the passenger seat of my pickup.
As for the GB size, my PRS-505 changes to the next pic as quickly as it flips between pages in a PDF. The zoom works MUCH better on JPEGs than it does on PDFs. I like JPEGs better than PDFs on the PRS-505.
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I have images of you in a dark basement frantically turning pages.
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Good lighting is essential to good book ripping ;o)
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Sorry for having fun with you but I couldn't help it. I certainly hope the image I have is wrong!  |
You are very wrong. I spend 2 weekends a year digitizing my text books, and am the only person on the faculty who does not drag home massive bags of books. I grab my eBook reader, and a note pad in a small case, and go with that. I've got everything I need right there.
Last semester, during finals week, a student walked up to me while I was eating lunch on campus and asked if I had graded his paper. I had previously scanned it and the other papers with an ADF, and saved it on a SD card. While he watched, I dropped the right card in my eBook, graded it, and recorded the grade on a note pad to mark in my online grade book later. He was astounded that I had everything right there in a 1-pound package.
Andy
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Most people don't read or study.
What would happen if you always had access to every book ever written, and could instantly switch from reading to listening to the audio book at that exact word? (When you get bored, when your eye get tired, or when you have to drive somewhere, you switch seamlessly.)
Could a bright, self-motivated kid get an education in the world's least competent school?
What if that reader did not depend on any outside technology? (i.e., it was solar powered, and rugged like a tennis shoe.)
Think of the regimes that have burned books. Could a government keep its people ignorant?
What would happen to the self reliance of individuals, when they can bring up a manual on auto repair on the side of the road?
How much better off would a patient be, if they could pull up a beginner's medical text when trying to understand a life-changing diagnosis? I've driven to the hospital, and would have liked to find the passage, then ask the eBook to read it to me.