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> Why? Libraries loan you books and paper does not have any DRM. Works fine. Because books are physical objects, copying them is expensive. Digital data doesn'
by Zababa 4y ago
> Why? Libraries loan you books and paper does not have any DRM. Works fine.
Because books are physical objects, copying them is expensive. Digital data doesn't have that problem.
- josefx 4y agoAnyone with a scanner and a day of time can produce infinite digital copies of a book. You don't have to throw money at it like Google and do some crazy AI driven OCR, a boring afternoon in front of a scanner, flipping through pages is more than enough. Source: I wasted way too much time to scan the notes I took as student just so I could throw the hard copies out.
- Zababa 4y agoI should have said "expensive compared to digital stuff", you're right that it doesn't cost an individual millions to copy a book. But compared to copying a mp3, it takes a lot of time.
- rightbyte 4y agoIf you are not sentimental you can cut the book and just feed it. Many libraries have those fancy copying machines. I have never tried it my self for anything other than A4 compendia books though.
- andsoitis 4y ago> I wasted way too much time to scan the notes I took you answered yourself why the scan approach is impractical.
- josefx 4y agoThere are many groups dedicated to the translation and typesetting of manga that have no official english release. This also counts as piracy and the amount of effort that goes into it dwarfs copying pages one by one significantly. Impracticality doesn't matter as long as you have a hand full of people willing to do it.