Re: [gutvol-d] on the will to scan books and digitize their text

Bowerbird@aol.com writes:

of course, whether or not people will deem it necessary or even desirable to _do_the_work_ to get digital text is another question entirely.

Well, I think this really depends on the answers to questions like "Do I have a electronic reader I would prefer to read over a paperback?", and "Am I likely to reread this book often enough that spending an additional couple hours converting it to something usable on my reader worth my time?" At least with producing texts for Project Gutenberg, even if you never read it again, presumably others will.