Microfiche scanning

Tom Jennings declared on Thursday 21 April 2005 11:41 pm: <snip> Yeah, but there's at least two problems with it. One, it's really hard to make fiche available to other people without scanning or giving out the original, and loaning out fiche is potentially risky and a pain in the ass to track. Paper docs have similar problems, but it's easier to duplicate paper than microfiche, unless you can find a cheap microfiche -> paper duplicator. Second, it's much easier - for me at least - to flip through a PDF than it is to flip through microfiche. Right now, I don't have a fiche viewer at home (despite the DEC MDS fiche I now have) so I have to make a trip to the library to view it. It's much easier to print out a few pages of a PDF (or all of it) and bring it with me to look at, than it is to haul around a microfiche reader... Pat -- Purdue University ITAP/RCAC --- http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/ The Computer Refuge --- http://computer-refuge.org