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"Build your own digital library"? For a single book, sure, makes sense, but this totally doesn't scale. Perhaps a nice gadget to have at a hackerspace, but the
by yuvadam 11y ago
"Build your own digital library"?
For a single book, sure, makes sense, but this totally doesn't scale. Perhaps a nice gadget to have at a hackerspace, but then again you can probably just build this yourself.
- dredmorbius 11y agoThis depends very much on your time/money tade-off, as well as the availability of texts, and the opportunities for sharing of scanned works. In many cases,books are nonlonger in print, scanning is among the few ways to get a copy. Or you need a small number of works to fill out a library which is otherwise available online. Services such as Library Genesis make sharing works among individual scanners and scanner communities far easier. For regions of the world with little access to printed materials, tools such as this are a godsend.
- aidenn0 11y agoIf you can scan a single book in 5 minutes, you could scan 8 books in a single episode of whatever you are currently watching on Netflix.