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Old 02-13-2013, 09:33 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by Pulpmeister View Post
So you have to ask yourself, is it better just to buy the ones you really want? And then only convert those which are, for some reason, unavailable in digital format yet.
Exactly. There is no need to do a scan/convert/proof/assemble on a book that already exists as an ebook. Way better to just go ahead and purchase it (or download a good copy if it is PD) than to spend a lot of time trying to do it yourself.

I have been doing this for a lot of older paperbacks that have never made it to an electronic format. Mainly, because I lost a really good collection of paper books some time back and wished I had spent a little time at least making the initial scan and clean. Some of those are still lost and I have found neither paper nor ebook versions to replace them.
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