9 Jun
2007
9 Jun
'07
10:54 a.m.
On Thursday 07 June 2007 06:41, Tim Shoppa wrote:
"Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at
verizon.net> wrote:
Most of the ones I have don't seem to have that problem, fortunately.
On Wednesday 06 June 2007 14:18, Chris M wrote:
Most databooks are printed on variable-to-poor quality paper and
will not last forever anyway. If you don't want to destroy them that
badly, then hopefully you will have them treated to neutralize the
acid in the paper. how about a sheet feeder Roy, bought(?) or home
made?
Then you could cut off the bindings, then feed them
in. It's what I'm going to do...one of these days.
Nope. I don't see a need to destroy the books to get that info in
there... Most such books end up "too much trouble to scan
but too valuable to
shear off the binding to make scanning easier" so the owner ends up
throwing them away.
Not too likely in my case. :-)
Doug Jones has a good web page on paperback/databook
type preservation:
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/book/
I'll have a look.
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin