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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 severe space problem - an unalterable 27 feet of bookshelves (at 90%+ capacity) and no option to extend, use the floor etc. Many books that I convert are my own, old, yellowing paperbacks that are falling apart, or titles bought specifically for conversion that I had to discard years ago.
Yes, I'd love to spend more time reading, but until the day when everything I want to read is digital, I'll just keep on with the format shifting. (And yes, I do get a passing creative buzz from the work as well).