[sdiy] From Bernie of Electronotes

[Tom Farrand]

All,

I disagree about an e-book for $50.  Please consider the following for my
reasoning:

Bernie said: "Not only do I have many such (the same original printings),
and we
mail the sets out weekly, but many of you on this mailing have the
same.  So much for finding a rare treasure."

The key phrase here is "I have many such..." which is in the present
tense.  Bernie later disclosed what the actual costs are for getting these
printed.  My tiny little brain takes Bernie at his word that he has "many
such" and that means he is sitting on a ton of previously printed
material.  I am certain he would like to recoup his considerable investment
before some well-wishing "helpers" turn his many dollars of investment in
paper (not to mention the huge amount of sweat equity he has put forth!)
and turn it in a fifty-buck PDF that will be cracked before sunset.

The issue here is not one of available technology to turn black marks on
paper into encapsulated Post-Script.  The issue is that the owner of this
intellectual property has an interest in and ultimate say-so of how his
intellectual property is disseminated ... if at all.

I think paper is fine as-is.  At least the volume of the paper hints at the
enormity of the effort it took to create this huge volume of work.  The
idea of reducing a lifetime of work into a fifty buck PDF borders on
insulting.  Can I reduce your life's work into a $50 PDF?  Is that what a
lifetime of work is worth nowadays?  People: think.

Tom Farrand




On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 12:00 PM, Tom Wiltshire <tom at electricdruid.net>
wrote:

> Fair enough. You clearly have had access to much better scanners than me!
>
> Tom.
>
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> On 25 Jun 2017, at 16:21, paula at synth.net wrote:
>
> > Sorry, have to disagree..
> > Most scanners have page feeders now and will happily scan 1000+ pages
> and save to PDF, just by loading the document in and hitting "Scan"
> >
> > Yes, OCR would be more onerous, but a simple type index page and linked
> chapters wouldn't take much effort and would save bucket loads of paper and
> open new markets for the papers.
> >
> > Paula
> >
> >
> > On 2017-06-25 14:39, Tom Wiltshire wrote:
> >> On 25 Jun 2017, at 14:28, Michael Zacherl <sdiy-mz01 at blauwurf.info>
> wrote:
> >>> On 25.Jun 2017, at 15:18 , Ben Stuyts <ben at stuyts.nl> wrote:
> >>>> Although I already own the complete set of Electronotes (thanks,
> Bernie!), I'd love to have an Ebook version too. It would make searching so
> much easier.
> >>> wouldn’t that involve lots of OCR-ing of the old issues?
> >> It certainly would. A lot. Scanning them all would be a big job, but
> >> OCR'ing them all too would be a major task.
> >> Until we get robots and AI that can do this sort of stuff for us,
> >> there's a lot of information that's just going to stay on paper. But I
> >> don't believe that point is that far away.
> >> Tom
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