He could sell or give away the paper version once
it's been
scanned (although slicing it to bits may make this harder and
not slicing it to bits means the scanning takes longer). I guess
selling it might be sufficient motive to take longer over the
scanning and not slice a manual.
So far none of the stuff I have scanned I think has any selling value
(some of it was already offered on this list and no one took it, I
actually pulled it from the garbage to scan them).
Anything that I think has value I will certainly either take the effort
to scan without damaging it, or find out if there is value BEFORE I
destroy it.
-chris
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