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Or physical. I buy CDs for my favourite music, and rip them for digital consumption. Shame there is no way to do this with books.
by foxylad 7y ago
Or physical. I buy CDs for my favourite music, and rip them for digital consumption. Shame there is no way to do this with books.
- creatornator 7y agoThere are some pretty good OCR tools, and it might be interesting to build a fixture with some 80x20 rail and a digital camera, to quickly capture some books to bring on the go
- bb88 7y agohttps://linearbookscanner.org/ https://linearbookscanner.org/
- adrianmsmith 7y agoEven physical CDs are not as easy to use as they used to be; this article https://www.databasesandlife.com/playing-a-cd-on-a-computer/ https://www.databasesandlife.com/playing-a-cd-on-a-computer/ is from 2007: I bought a CD from a shop, a few months later tried to play it on my computer and the DRM had already somehow gone wrong in that short space of time. (At least CDs still work in CD players.)
- iamnotacrook 7y agoIf the DRM stopped it working then it was not a CD (aka "a defective CD), as a CD - as per the Red Book standard - does not support DRM. You should get your money back.
- adrianmsmith 7y agoRight, I mean, I agree, but my point was: It looked like a CD, I bought it from a physical shop selling CDs, it was a modern release from a top 10 pop star at the time. So if you want to listen to music, the algorithm "just buy [what looks like] a CD from a shop, then you won't have to deal with DRM" was not true, at least in my case.
- arendtio 7y agoJust hope none those media companies tries to infect your PC... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...