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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
well, yes.. i'm not so much talking about the memory requirements (that's a secondary issue imo, although scrolling through scanned (non-ocr) pdfs in adobe takes lots and lots of CPU) as i am talking about the fact that you can't search for words/word groups in such a document.
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Well actually you *DID* talk about memory requirements (*rollseyes*
) But yes, you can't search and thats not ideal, but its not something you gain when you again use paper instead
There are more reasons to read on an e-paper device than just being able to do text searches.
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also (this is mostly relevant to students wanting to read their books on the thing, i imagine, as you can probably do it 'yourself' in most decent-sized companies) actually scanning the books isn't something you can do easily.
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Scanners are available at the university. I checked the university of vienna, the central copyservice has some devices that can take an USB-Stick, and you get the data on the stick instead of a printout (unfortunally they still charge as you would copy it on paper). Some 150$ Canon scanner are available free to use in the IT-center. The technical university has a "book-eye", a new book scanner available for students, you open the book under its eye and it "scans" 2 sides with a click (its actually a high-definition camera like all the expensive dedicated book scanners today use).They write on the homepage they bought it, because students damage the books using a standard photocopier. I will check the quality of this when I have time gonig there. Otherwise a 100$ cannon scanner will do the job. you need 300 dpi Black/white to get decent results on the iliad screen, thats what cheap scanners can do already. Anything more is just waste of scanning time, disk space.
I heared the library of the university of paderborn have a scan-on-demand-service, you send them the title and the chapter, they send you the PDF. However available only for lecturers
. However I'd even pay something for such a service, but it needs to be less than buying the book would cost. The central national library of austria also sends you PDFs on requests, but you also have to pay them, haven't yet checked how much they want..
But you see I'm still inquireing about these things. Right now I scan my books with a 250$ Canon Scanner. A 300 pages book aprox. takes a day to do it, but I can read while I'm doing it...