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I'm just some guy who likes scanners

Just had the best interaction with a political organization I'm probably going to have all year

Thank you for being so quick with the turnaround! It's always appreciated to see some proper discussion. Sorry it didn't get published in time.

For items that are pure text, no graphics or color, cheap solutions exist.

Everyone has their thumb in the internet archive

Good times.

Pedal mounts to prevent carpal tunnel, light balancing against the pages, glass acquiring for the v-shape to get the inside margins. Quality checking to verify results and make sure pages weren't missed or missing, metadata to verify the item is logged as what it is including printing and publisher.

....and software to focus and test, and the coordination of the two cameras on mounts to guarantee consistent visual connection, and the software to coordinate the photos, and the post processing software to crop the photos, and the calibration.

I mean, not true

This is clearly what happened with @borman.bsky.social

I'm not totally going wall nutty here but the people rushing forward to go "actually they aren't destroying rare books and books are destroyed all the time" during this week are doing a weird simp for this process and how the whole thing is going on. More research needed.

Ha ha oh well. People clearly care.

My secret, Cap, is that I'm *always* angry about old books. For instance, here's a tiny slice of the millions of books 1931-1986 that have no commercial value, that are digitized, but that we're unable to use in large-scale research because they are illegal to share or display.

I was tired last night. The books team, not some person named Brooks.

I always have a moment where I remember that the murderous psychopathic crimelord who terrorized the city with deadly plans and major catastrophes had a brand logo

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