My father told me about a time when the big cities were plagued with cinemas, some of them really really spectacular. This time exist no more.
The cinemas of today... they are totally different like those circus with 20 elephants and tigers you just can't see it again.
Maybe it is time for people like google guys to enter and record with the street view tech what is like a bookstore of today because maybe it is obvious for us but our children will not know what is it.
I'm digitalizing all my books with the fantastic Fujitsu S1500 so I don't have to carry a metric ton of books around with me. Ebook tech will only improve, it is in its infancy today.
Sorry for OT, but regarding the Fujitsu, do you cut the spines off your books and throw them away afterwards? And do you read them from PDF's? On what, a regular computer? That seems to be quite a step backwards; I love epub on my ebook, but reading non-reflowable formats is hardship on it. Or do you have an A4/letter ebook?
But does the OCR recognize things like page numbers or chapter names at the top of the page, chapter headers etc? If it just makes searchable pdf's with the same layout as the original pages, it still wouldn't help much. But if OCR software does do that, that's be great - then I can convert also 'normal' pdf's into html/epub.
The cinemas of today... they are totally different like those circus with 20 elephants and tigers you just can't see it again.
Maybe it is time for people like google guys to enter and record with the street view tech what is like a bookstore of today because maybe it is obvious for us but our children will not know what is it.
I'm digitalizing all my books with the fantastic Fujitsu S1500 so I don't have to carry a metric ton of books around with me. Ebook tech will only improve, it is in its infancy today.