[FRIAM] Grepping Paper: tom at jtjohnson.com sent you a link to content of interest

[Don Begley]

PC Mag's last issue talked about 3D printers. pretty interesting--they  
essentially make a model of the object.


On Dec 21, 2007, at 7:23 PM, Steve Smith wrote:

> As we say.... "you can't grep paper" !
>
> Though I expect soon enough that we will have invasive 3D scanners or
> something which you just chuck a book into and viola!  You get back
> the full text with the appropriate typeface, illustrations and perhaps
> even a lexical analysis of the text.
>
> - Steve
> On Dec 21, 2007, at 2:00 PM, Pamela McCorduck wrote:
>
>> Thanks for that--a very fair appraisal, I thought, though the
>> keyboard on the OL is a lot better than on the Kindle.  Yeah, for me
>> it's all about reading books in transit--in airports, on planes, on
>> the subway--without lugging the timber.  I've downloaded about five
>> books, and one of the best features was using the "search" feature
>> to go through a 500-page book by Anthony Trollope, looking for
>> evidence that an unmarried Victorian couple may or may not have
>> consummated their relationship.  It would've been hell to try and
>> find in my paperback version; it was easy to find in the electronic
>> version  (yes, they probably did, fyi, but Trollope is so sly he
>> gets it right past you if you're not looking for it).  I also keep
>> saying to everyone that I don't expect to use it in my living room,
>> but whaddya know... and it's  exactly the  right size for reading in
>> bed.
>>
>> P.
>>
>>
>>
>> Once when I asked a chieftain in a certain province [of Peru] if he
>> was a Christian, he said "I am not yet quite one, but I am making a
>> beginning."  I asked him what he knew of being Christian, and he
>> said: "I know how to swear to God, and play cards a bit, and I am
>> beginning to steal."
>>
>> 	Fray Domingo Santo Tomas, 1560
>> 		
>>
>>
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