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:date: 2011-09-19 10:48:46
:author: bnewbold
:category: photo
:slug: 2011-09-19-daniel-reetz-gave-a-great-talk-at-the-open
:status: published

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Daniel Reetz gave a great talk at the open hardware summit and then I
spent some time chatting with him at Maker Faire. I think from the whole
weekend this is the project i'm most likely to get involved with: I for
one lug around about 20kg of old notebooks every time I move and i'd
love to get them digitized. I also made a lot of use of book scanners at
the Rotch Library back in the day, which had OCR, pdf generation, and
easy email features. I think every library should have a book scanning
station for patrons to make use of; i'm sure there are copyright
concerns with people scanning in whole books and posting them to the
net, but that shouldn't be an impediment to an important and useful
service.

(photo from
`wired.com <http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/12/diy-book-scanner/>`__.

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