Re: Books online...

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Todd Nathan wrote:

>Look what I found online...
>
>http://sdobooks.dyndns.org/
>
>does anyone else have such a collection of electronic books?

After looking over the "library" (and its ludicrous prohibition for
law enforcement people ;-), I am a little disappointed.

On the one hand, making this information available in _any_ 
form is helpful.  On the other, this form--300-400KB photos
of an opened book--is really cumbersome to use and store!

I suppose it invites others to convert it to a more convenient
form, but the ~150 dpi of the large images makes OCR a bit
dodgey--unless performed by a human.

It's a shame that it is so labor-intensive to convert a 175KB
manual page into the 2.5KB of text that carries its information.

I guess that we can expect to see many more "camera
captures" of old printed material.  It would be nice to have
a simple way of processing it into captured text (plus the
occasional graphic).

Ah, well--I can dream...   ;-)

-michael

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