Comments on: The joy of electronic books

By: Zelda Link's Backyard

Zelda Link's Backyard — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 04:59:02 +0000

With all the doggone snow we have gotten lately I am stuck inside , fortunately there is the internet, thanks for giving me something to do.

By: Drew Crawford

Drew Crawford — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:44:12 +0000

I'd like to direct you here.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 04:39:49 +0000

@drew Drew, your comment about time shifting is out to lunch. New York Times Co. v. Tasini, 533 U.S. 483 (2001), blew it right out of the water. Check it out. Writers own their work unless they specifically assign their copyright to someone else (e.g. a publisher). You can try and steal it if you want, but you'd better believe that's actionable.

By: Michael Nielsen » Biweekly links for 08/03/2009

Michael Nielsen » Biweekly links for 08/03/2009 — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:53:13 +0000

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By: Awifredo

Awifredo — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 22:24:23 +0000

Hi Drew, this article is awesome!!! I have just bought an Iliad Irex reader and I’m also trying to digitize all my library… I have also the Mises’ Human Action and Socialism….too much work.

I’m getting troubles with the OCR…may it does not work pretty fine in Spanish. But this is not important.

What I’m getting really troubles is with the size of the PDF files. For example, with the Third Volumen of the Stieg Larsson’s Millenium I got a PDF of 5 Mb when there is only text in the file. This book shouldn’t weight more than 1 Mb…but I cannot manage to reduce the file size.

Do you have any tricky point for this?

Thank you very much in advance…

By: Todd Noren-Hentz

Todd Noren-Hentz — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:06:59 +0000

Neat idea. If folks are looking for a shortcut that has SOME of the benefit of having all your books scanned, then try creating a “My Library” over at Google Books and you can add all your books and search them. For most books, it will give you the page number(s) where the search term was found of any book in your “My Library.” This isn’t full proof because 1) they don’t have every book and 2) some publishers restrict them from displaying the page number where the search term is found.

This does work for MOST books and doesn’t take too much time to set up.

By: Wow!

Wow! — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:10:13 +0000

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By: Anleitung zur Digitalisierung der privaten Bibliothek « scholarz.blog

Anleitung zur Digitalisierung der privaten Bibliothek « scholarz.blog — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:14:25 +0000

[...] bislang noch nicht das Bedürfnis verspürt, alle meine Bücher einzuscannen, aber Drew Craford vom SealedAbstract-Blog hat seine letzten Monate genau damit verbracht. Er hat sich mit wissenschaftlicher Akribie an das [...]

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:50:23 +0000

Great article! Can you share the settings on the Scansnap you find work best, such at DPI?

By: Drew Crawford

Drew Crawford — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:20:13 +0000

@Wolf It's a mac port of ABBYY finereader. The mac port is only available with Scansnap scanners.