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Originally Posted by crossi
Why would anyone care about defasing or ruining a mass produced book? It's not like a hand written origional edition or other rare object. It's like caring if someone threw paint at a print of the Mona Lisa.
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Problem is, some of the books being scanned are decades, or centuries old, and is one of the few extant copies remaining. One of my projects in my spare time has been making an ebook copy of Hartmann the Anarchist. Google scanned, and destroyed, a copy from 1893. That edition goes for hundreds of dollars if you can find it. The version rendered from that scanning, is almost totally unreadable, due to the number of OCR errors. Was that worth it?