As someone in posession of thousands and thousands of books, most of which are frankly horrible artefacts, made of crappy pulp and printed and bound by the cheapest means available, I’m utterly taken by the Slashdotter’s plan to strip the bindings off his tech library, scan the books and OCR them for his computer. 95 percent of the books I own would be more useful to me as bytes than atoms — I’d love to do this. Link Discuss