My Newest Ebook Reader- The Printed Page

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Donnageddon

I find it works pretty well for format shifting. I print out the Mobi ebook using Calibre, then use a scanner with a top notch OCR program to scan the printed pages. Load the resulting txt file into Calibre and format to whatever format type I desire.

I then take the left over paper to a recycling center and use the proceeds to pay for printer supplies.

Nothing could be simpler.

Yeah, lots of think could be simpler. The simplest thing is to use Calibre to convert that Mobi eBook to another format without the hassle and waste of paper/toner and time to scan/OCR. What a very silly way to do it.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by jgaiser

Now that makes perfect sense..

Makes less sense then George W. Bush.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by AlbertaCowboy

No way in Hell. The only thing uglier than a binder full of paper is a bookshelf full of binders. If I were to read on paper, I'd buy the pbook.

Or get it from the library to read the pBook.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by corona

I'm guessing maybe to the first question, and no, I'm guessing probably not, to the second.

I'm not guessing. I'm saying hell yes it's weird. It's just not normal to do.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Elfwreck

I've printed sections of ebooks for reading. Problem is, I read a lot more than is practical to print.

I regularly read 15,000-word fanfic during my lunch break. It takes me a couple of days' leisure reading to get through a 115k-word novel (fanfic or otherwise)... I'm certainly not going to print that out.

I did print out copies of Little Brother and For the Win for my daughter to read. (And to get signed. Someday, we're gonna have to figure out how to do author booksignings for digital books.) Little Brother comes out to 300 half-letter sized, cut in half & GBC comb bound pages with 10-pt text; that's 75 sheets of paper, with a bit more than an hour's formatting time. I could make the text smaller but then the lines get annoyingly long.

I've printed some books in 8-pt type, 3 columns with .35" spaces between them; that works okay. But it's still a lot of paper to waste.

Well, if your eBook is in ePub without DRM, it is fairly easy to get it signed. All you do is get the author to sign a blank page. Then you scan it as a graphic image and insert that into the eBook so then the eBook is signed. Simple really.

[Donnageddon]

Originally Posted by Shaggy

Wouldn't it be a lot simpler to just convert from Mobi to another format via software?

But...but...then what would I do with my printer, scanner, and top notch OCR program? Not to mention I would miss the swell people at the paper recycling plant so very much!

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Yeah, lots of think could be simpler. The simplest thing is to use Calibre to convert that Mobi eBook to another format without the hassle and waste of paper/toner and time to scan/OCR. What a very silly way to do it.

But...but... it is good exercise!