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I think, we all should tip to buy a vacuum book scanner for Mr Scott, if he shall decide to digitize manuals. You won't believe how useful this library will be
by ommunist 11y ago
I think, we all should tip to buy a vacuum book scanner for Mr Scott, if he shall decide to digitize manuals. You won't believe how useful this library will be for the folks in the field.
- throwaway7767 11y agoIt would probably be better to donate such a thing to the Internet Archive and get to use it for this project. This guy is renting storage space for the manuals out of his own pocket, it's unlikely he has space for industrial scanning equipment at home.
- enf 11y agoJason Scott works for the Internet Archive, as well as doing his own archiving and documentary work.
- throwaway7767 11y ago> Jason Scott works for the Internet Archive, as well as doing his own archiving and documentary work. Yes, I know. The GP comment suggested giving an expensive, large industrial scanner to "Mr. Scott", which I interpreted as giving it to him personally. My point was simply that it would be more appropriate to give it to the Internet Archive.
- ommunist 11y agoI just thought that this particular mission was initiative of Mr Scott himself, not the Internet Archive as business entity.
- teraflop 11y agoFrom a previous post: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4695 http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4695 > Hey, go ask Google. I think people don’t understand what Google is and how much it particularly cares about doing “The Right Thing” (not much), and the next person to mention the Linear Book Scanner (a prototype that destroys books), well, they’re going to get a hug and my distracting words of love.