On Jun 22, 7:47, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>
> > Talk to Doug Jones. He recommends dismantling the book carefully
> > for the best quality copies/scans.
> I completely recommend AGAINST destroying the original. Not only is it
in
> some cases a historical artifact on its own, if the digital copy were
ever
> to be lost then you're SOL.
I too was going to suggest Doug Jones, but Ethan beat me to it. however,
if you read Doug's pages, you'll see he thought carefully about this,
consulted conservators, and actually describes very carefully how and why
to minimise the historical loss.
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/book/index.html
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Fri Jun 22 2001 - 20:30:17 BST