Thread: Open Library -- have they changed borrowing policy?
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Old 03-29-2021, 07:48 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
It doesn't take that long. One author I did some work for had to scan and OCR a book she wrote in the late 1980s. Due to a couple of moves and a marital split, she no longer had her original manuscript or a copy of the book and the publisher she recovered the rights from evidently did not have any copies around either. We were lucky enough to find a copy at Brown's Books which was in pretty sad shape which made it easier to break up for the scanning process. Even with using the various tools to clean up after the OCR, it was not fun.
Just curious, but how long did it take?
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