Vaniver comments on LessWrong Help Desk - free paper downloads and more (2014) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vaniver 23 July 2015 10:19:04PM 1 point [-]

Huh; my friend converted his physical collection to a digital one years ago, and I thought he said the price was dollars per book. (Googling "physical book to ebook" gives a lot of options.) The thing I would be more concerned about is it being an image file or terrible OCR.

Comment author: btrettel 23 July 2015 10:57:21PM *  0 points [-]

This is good to know. I was not aware of services which will scan books you own. I think this is the route gwern should go.

My own experience with OCR is that it's generally pretty bad unless it's done by Google and/or you put a lot of effort into cleaning the images. Though, I have only used free services, so perhaps my experience is limited.