Gene:

I have a mp3 CD (actually three--I just can't find anymore songs I wish to
have) for my car player, there are almost 300 songs in mp3 format 112k bit
rate... now each song stored in a "conventional manner" (wav format) would
consume 40 megs each and just fitting 20 on a CD would be impossible--it is
all what a person wants expects or is able to see the value of... at 3 megs
each, many books will fit on one 650+ meg CD and be readable on almost every
cdrom in the world... at 28+ to 33 megs few will fit and my collection of
already unmanageable numbers of CDs will continue to grow at a speed which
will bury me...

.... how come everyone here thinks I want what they want--in most every case
I have found I do not--surely others have noticed this... if I want
something which can be purchased off a shelf, is what everyone else
has--I'll simply go buy one!

.... and how come the ones puzzled by this keep asking the same repetitive
question(s), "Why do you want to do that?" If you know the reason do you
think I will be any less likely to still want the answers I seek--if you
do--your nature is not one of curiosity--it is for control--you wish to stop
one from knowing/doing as they intend... don't be offended if others ignore
this and move in the same directions anyway... I certainly am not offended
by those who wish to stop or halt others--I realize they exist, have always
existed--will continue to exist... I just don't care--and this is not those
I seek...

Warmest regards,
John

"Gene Fuller" wrote in message
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"John",

Would you believe that even in the modern "me generation" some libraries
still prefer that their patrons avoid cutting the back ribs from books?

Dave did a really nice job of providing access to this book. The resulting
PDF file is nowhere near the largest PDF file I have on my computer. And
it is not even remotely in the same size category as the bloatware
dispensed by M$.

73,
Gene
W4SZ

John Smith wrote:
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I have access to a scanner which, if the back rib is cut off a book, and
pages freed, scan a whole thick book in minutes--I have hand scanned
books on my home scanner, a high speed scsi HP, and it does take a bit of
time and effort--I am sure you did the same with the book you are
speaking of, and know well that task... on a fast computer, conversion
of a page by fine reader is seconds... it really just depends on how good
the scanned images are... much less than 5 secs a page for good
quality--scanned images...