I am having trouble understanding the mindset of wanting to spend the time to scan, OCR, format, and proofread a book in order to convert it from paper to e-book format. I can see the utility of doing this for public domain books where the results may be of use to a large number of people. But I get the impression that many people are making this effort for in-copyright works for their own personal use, where the number of readers of the result may be only one, the person doing the work, who has probably already read the book in question.
Maybe it is because I have more years behind me than ahead, but I would rather spend my time reading instead of hoarding books.
Last edited by jhowell; 04-06-2014 at 05:21 PM.
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