[FoRK] Back to... paper?

[Stephen D. Williams]

Luis Villa wrote:
> On Nov 20, 2007 4:29 PM, Stephen D. Williams <sdw at lig.net> wrote:
>   
>> Don't you guys read everything I write? ;-)  (As I look over the 50
>> messages I'm behind..., since I am packing / filtering / scanning to move.)
>>     
>
> I don't think you did quite as good a job of selling the particular
> piece of hardware as the other dude did :)
>   
It seems that my most glowing and complete piece about it wasn't to 
FoRK..., but good point.
>> And I'm very interested in the Kindle.  I sure wish someone would have
>> thought of me as a beta tester....!  I would be a very good reviewer and
>> tech tester.  It will be interesting to see how well I can convert my
>> scan PDFs to something usable.
>>     
>
> Probably not well:
> http://g-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/digital/otp/help/reflowable_text.html
>
> I understand their motives for making the primary format reflowable,
> but it seems like it should still be able to fall back on
> non-reflowable text (aka pdfs) when no good option is available.
>   
With very good OCR, you can make PDFs reflowable, although I'd rather 
just have something with enough resolution and right kind of interface 
to read the image-based PDFs, with hidden search metadata text, if I so 
desire.  You can be sure there are no OCR errors that way.  For some 
things, like novels, OCR errors are not a problem.
> [That is, unless the book industry had a hand in the design. But that
> would never happen, would it?]
>
> Luis
>   
sdw

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