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Why PDF is a good idea?<br>
For me, I'd love to read electronotes, but I'm not really keen on 3
big boxes of paper.<br>
it takes up too much space, is impractical, shipping it to the other
side of the world sounds unnecessary.<br>
In paper form I know it will sit somewhere collecting dust.<br>
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I think even all music CDs I bought in the last 10 years where
directly ripped to mp3 and the physical media was not touched ever
again.<br>
I love having all my books as e-books, just because I don't have to
sift through pages anymore and have my whole house full of book
shelves.<br>
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text does not even have to be OCR'd. It would already be great for
me to have just image scans with a proper name to use the file
explorer search to find a paper about a specific topic.<br>
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money is not the problem for me, it's the anachronistic format and
all the hassle that comes with so much paper that is holding me
back.<br>
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just my 2 cents<br>
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julian<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 07.07.2017 um 03:23 schrieb Quincas
Moreira:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I think people would pay more than 40usd for 6000
historic pages as PDFs, and at no printing or shipping cost for
Bernie, that can become a significant increase in profit and
decrease in effort. Increase in volume too, as more people may
be inclined to pay say, 100 bucks, than the current cost. That
right there may be a reason to endeavor to at least make the pre
2000 issues available in PDF as well. IF Ebook becomes
unmanageable a well searchable PDF collection is plenty good
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 8:12 PM, Andrew
Simper <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andy@cytomic.com"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">andy@cytomic.com</a>></span>
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class="">On 7 July 2017 at 01:30, Bernard Arthur Hutchins
Jr <<a href="mailto:bah13@cornell.edu"
moz-do-not-send="true">bah13@cornell.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Since there is no improvement in the
figures/equations, and the text is a serious downgrade,
tell me again (anyone) why an OCR/ebook is a good idea
here.<br>
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> Bernie<br>
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