--- Jens Gulden <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's really too bad; over at Distributed Proofreaders we're > > drooling over the thing. > > Looking at what DP is doing, I wouldn't expect anything else > than you making fun about it...
There are only two high-speed scanners feeding into the site; the rest of us make do with whatever cheap flatbeds we can get our hands on. The high-speeds require the book to be destroyed; for rarer volumes (and library copies) something like the OptiBook would be a godsend to minimize damage. > Do you mean the device itself is 'too bad', in terms of > technical quality? Sorry; English (American?) idiom. "It's too bad"--the whole situation is "too bad," disappointing. The same "it" as "it's raining." > Are there any devices similiar to the Plustek OpticBook 3600? > By other manufacturers? Not that I know of; right now it's rather unique and I believe rather patented. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
