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Lexam@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Back in the day I was in the IRC book piracy scene. “Ebooks” weren’t out yet. So someone would scan a book page by page. Then they would hand it off for editing basically. First revision was the straight OCR (Optical Character Reader), then usually someone would do a pass through to take out any weird characters and what not. That second revision would then be handed off to someone like myself who would read the actual book and correct any typos the OCR created. I read books on a Palm Pilot.
Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
tehn00bi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Palm pilot. You an OG. I miss my little palm.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I just heard someone on a podcast calling Palm Pilots shitty porto-e-readers the other day.
laranis@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Glorious.
Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I downloaded .txt books and read on my DS :D nostalgic but do not want to relive the experience
einlander@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Reminds me of the scanslation scene. Was a cleaner/redrawer.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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einlander@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Can’t trace what’s not there. Especially when dealing with joined pages. Soon scanners somehow cut out entire sections from the middle of the page. I can go into a diatribe over skills that people in scanslation don’t have anymore.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No shade intended! Just memeing with 90s memes!
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
I read some obscure manga titles and I’d say that the skills and care are still there.
Cybersteel@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I remember that one page in Medaka Box with lots of very tiny writings in the background and being impressed that the scanlator bothered to translate those into English.