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Old 10-02-2009, 11:09 AM   #38
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Originally Posted by pilotbob View Post
Of course you could scan the book to PDF and get a Kindle DX or DR1000/800 and just read the PDF. No proofreading needed in this case since you aren't doing OCR, just making a graphical representation of the pages.

The extra money you spend on the larger format reader will be more than paid for in all the time you would have spent correcting OCR errors.

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The downside will be HUGE files. A scanned book can easily be 30MB+, compared to perhaps 1MB for the same book in a "textual" format.
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