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Dump them all in a shredder. Blow the shreds through a well-lit tunnel full of digital cameras. Assemble the books from the images. Now it's just a software pro
by swayvil 8y ago
Dump them all in a shredder. Blow the shreds through a well-lit tunnel full of digital cameras. Assemble the books from the images. Now it's just a software problem.
(This isn't my idea. Either Rudy Rucker, Vernor Vinge or Cory Doctorow thought it. I forget exactly who.)
- ahazred8ta 8y agoThe ham-handed Librareome digital preservation project from Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End >> "The raging maw was a "NaviCloud custom debinder". The fabric tunnel that stretched out behind it was a "camera tunnel" ... thousands of books that had already been sucked into the "data rescue" equipment"
- swayvil 8y agoHas anybody tried that? It seems like a fun software problem.