[sdiy] From Bernie of Electronotes

[Roman]

I was going to comment in similar way.  Whatever is printed already, it's printed and must go. Am I right that Electronotes are sold in a form of binded xeroxed pages? Or what? So maybe for future batch it's better to scan them straight to PDF anyway, no OCR, editing and all that stuff, it has to be the easy way. And then print them in average printhouse, there's one on every corner nowadays. 6000 pages is like 13 books of about 470 pages each, A4-sized. And I mean real books like you get in walk-in bookstore. The cost of printing one such book in quantity of 1 (one) is less than $20, and drops down to less than $7 at qty=50, so merely $90 for a full set of 13. Add a markup of $100 and it's still a bargain.  I know that 470-page PDF full of hi-res scans would be tremendously huge, and definitely kill my computer during scan, but maybe it's worth considering.   Roman  Dnia 25 czerwca 2017 19:50 Roman <paula at synth.net> napisał(a):  Tom,   I was putting forward a suggestion to help with costs of reprinting,  postage, etc.  Putting this on amazon for even say $75 would still result in way more  sales than of people who can afford $370+ for a series of books.   Not with standing the existing printed copies, which I'm sure would  sell as a lot of people prefer paper to screen, it would be better for  the environment and somewhere like Amazon could handle all the sales. So  no missed emails, no printing, no shipping, that all saves a LOT of  time.   Paula    On 2017-06-25 18:37, Tom Farrand wrote:  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.   ==================  Electric Druid  Synth & Stompbox DIY  ==================   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  ______________________________  Synth-diy mailing list   Synth-diy at synth-diy.org  synth-diy.org synth-diy.org  [1]   ______________________________  Synth-diy mailing list   Synth-diy at synth-diy.org  synth-diy.org synth-diy.org  [1]     Links:  ------  [1]  synth-diy.org synth-diy.org   ______________________________  Synth-diy mailing list   Synth-diy at synth-diy.org  synth-diy.org synth-diy.org
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