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    301 month ago

    This reminds me of the book Rainbows End, by Vernor Vinge. In it, a company uses a mulcher to grind down all the books and shelves in a library, then uses scans of the scraps to reassemble the books in digital form for an AR version of the library.

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        61 month ago

        Oh, it’s a great book. Or at least, I liked it a lot. The library mulching was opposed by most of the characters.

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          51 month ago

          At least with zones of thought I identified him as an author I don’t enjoy on the first read but rereads get better and better .

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      11 month ago

      Didn’t Google come up with a system that does exactly that as a fast way to digitize books for their online library