Bowerbird, One more thing that might help you understand where I'm coming from: My interest in PG began when I did some work for One Laptop Per Child. I wrote a manual for them on how to write Activities for the laptops, and since the book was aimed at children and teachers in very poor countries I did all the programming on reconditioned desktop computers costing about $100 and running Linux. I wanted to convince my audience that this was something they could do with scrounged equipment. That book was very well received so I thought about e-books for my next project and wrote this: http://www.archive.org/details/EBookEnlightenment The goal of this book is to get children and teachers in poor countries to digitize their own books. Again, cheap and time-consuming is better than expensive and efficient. Kid's labor is worthless and doing it the hard way might even be educational. (I'm assuming that the kid is doing this because he *wants* to do it. I don't advocate child labor). Now that the book is written I could change my mindset but I haven't managed to do that yet. James Simmons On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:59 AM, <Bowerbird@aol.com> wrote:

james said:

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I concede your point about ABBYY Fine Reader.

well, first of all, there's no need to "concede", because i'm not trying to "win" an argument...

i'm trying to help you figure out what you are doing wrong, to make you feel like every book is the last one that you're ever gonna digitize...

even as you lay out plans to do a dozen more... :+)

so i will have much more to say, later, but i want this file off my plate, today, if i can find a way to make some time, so i will have to delay the temptation...

james, you're taking all this really great.

-bowerbird

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