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Originally Posted by jhowell
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.
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For me, it makes sense to do because I have horrible eyesight and arthritis, so reading paper books is difficult and painful. I haven't done this yet, but I am getting more and more tempted every day. There are some favorite books of mine that haven't been made into ebooks yet, and eventually I will make the leap and do it. I may just use 1 dollar scan, though--I'm not sure if the cost of buying the double sided scanner would be worth it for me.
Shari