What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations?
What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations?
Mine would be creating pen and paper ciphers for my made up secret communication needs.
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I've spent a good chunk of the year making ebooks from out-of-print dead tree books. Proofing and formatting takes a ton of time. Nobody reads them but me.
You'll be that guy that records old shows on VHS and when he died the only record of old shows was donated to an archive/museum. A priceless contribution to humanity.
If you don't mind, archive.org has a place where you can upload them.
Do you have these online somewhere?
you should upload them to archive.org!
What's your process? What tools do you use??
Mobile app called vFlat to do the scans and OCR. Cleanup in Google Docs. EPUB creation in Calibre. Then for proofing, I read the whole thing on an Onyx Boox, which lets me mark it up with a stylus. Then back to Calibre.
Doing priceless work. Where are they online?
A noble endeavour. Unless we do something about it, we're going to have a huge copyright-shaped hole in our cultural history.
I bought an out of print book for Kindle that was typed and formatted as a father-son project. So glad they took the time.
put them on libgen