Re:50 years of eBooks: 1971-2021
by bambax on Thursday December 02, 2021 @09:40AM
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They destroyed the books to scan them. They cut the pages to send them to a scanner, and discarded them afterwards. It was a horrible tragedy.
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Indeed, the book scanning project at Google at one point involved removing the spine of a book with a bandsaw, then scanning the loose pages.
For fun, they collected the sawed-off spines and glued them to boards fashioned to look like bookcases. The office looked like a library, but there were no books on the "shelves," only spines.