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From: BillGill <tonisdad215@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: hobby electronics
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2024 09:54:40 -0500
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On 7/8/2024 10:31 AM, Don Y wrote:
> On 7/8/2024 6:45 AM, BillGill wrote:
> 
> 
>> There is some software that works with some cameras that will
>> send the images directly to the computer.
> 
> But, would it show "viewfinder" images or just *snapped* images?
> I.e., could you use the images delivered "in real time" at
> the computer to PREVIEW the photos that will be snapped?  Or,
> does it only transfer the images after they have been taken?
> (which would be more tedious to try to use to align the book)
> 
Some software may work that way.  What I used was set it uSome software 
may work that way.  What I used was set it up
and then take the pictures pretty much blind.
> 
> The point was that the approach makes it easier to access deeper
> into the gutter.  I would imagine the builds that have the book face
> up, opened to a pair of pages have to contend with pages infringing
> on the gutter as the position *in* the book changes (and more paper
> piles up on one side or the other)
> 
That was one of the reasons for my design of the KISS scanner.

> No.  The PDF is a (lossless) photo of the page.  For "pocket books"
> (i.e., the paperbacks of the 60's), my ereader screens are large
> enough that it is as if I was holding the original book in my hand
> (but only seeing recto or verso page-at-a-time).
> 
One advantage of the EPUB format is that it can be read on
any size device, including a phone, although I for one can
not imagine trying to read on a phone.

> 
> [Imagine finding yourself in an extended care facility (stroke,
> mobility, blindness, injury, etc.) and never really being able to
> return home to PERSONALLY sort out YOUR things.  "Imposing" that
> task (chore!) on someone else -- and wondering what might not
> be happening as YOU would have intended, had you been present to
> "supervise" the activity]

I am only scanning in my collection of fiction books.  Sorting
them should be relatively easy, although my daughter is also
a reader, so she might have a problem sorting out the ones she
wants to keep.

Bill