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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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I have a paperbook I bought that I am unable to read because the type is too small. I want to be able to read it.
Since it is for my own personal use, I'm not concerned with proofing it to be exactly like the original. I can live with a misplaced comma or italics.