[Noisebridge-discuss] Art of Electronics [Book]

[Seth David Schoen]

Kragen Javier Sitaker writes:

> Kragen (who lives in a country that permits copying books for educational use)

I remember being amazed on a visit to a neighboring country when a
number of law school professors started a campaign called "Copying
Books is a Right!" to promote a similar legal norm.

I didn't see a high incidence of book-photocopying when I was a
university student here in the U.S., but it seems ubiquitous elsewhere.

Apart from the copyright angle, there are a number of projects to
help people digitize print books, ending up with a DRM-free ebook,
often with searchable text.  The homebrew versions often use digital
cameras instead of scanners; notably

http://www.bookliberator.com/

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