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brbposting, in At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book—one page at a time, by hand.

Do you really work there?

If so… We love you.

ech, in At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book—one page at a time, by hand.

WHY do people think everything needs to be cropped to hell just to fit on their phone. The screen rotates. Just twist it around ya lazy bastards.

Anyhow, here’s a link to the full size video that isn’t pointlessly cut down by 75%: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QThaHpkFVzw

GBU_28,

Why care? In a second I’ll leave this video and never think of it again. The key point is conveyed, and we are all done.

ech,

Because someone went out of their way to mutilate a video for no reason, so I’m gonna go out of my way to make it right. Just because you can’t be bothered to care doesn’t mean everyone else is just like you.

GBU_28, (edited )

This isn’t a “significant” video. By any standard. Digest the information and move on. Doing otherwise is fist fighting the waves on the beach.

Most importantly, the purpose and message of the video is conveyed.

ech,

Thankfully, you don’t get to decide what other people consider “significant”. I’ll spend my time how I want, thanks.

GBU_28,

Literally name any metric or qualifier of objective nature.

ech,

Lol, no. You don’t get to debate me into not valuing something. Deal with it.

GBU_28,

You deal. You’re the one having a this about a fully informative short clip.

You clearly only have subjective value positions to argue from, and can’t meaningfully refute my points.

There’s no problem enjoying content the way you do. There’s a problem getting angry about a video that literally does it’s job

ech,

Nah.

GBU_28,

Glad we tidied this up. Resume the video!!

brbposting,

Wouldn’t it be great to have it dynamic based on device?

Anyway, everyone’ll have to get off our lawn.

For the average world netizen…

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/0ad2dcda-49c4-49f4-ad0e-dd8e2859f4f5.jpeg

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/dd2cb05d-0ec3-46fe-88b4-b01b8e0ea444.png

…OP’s is the desirable format.

v81,

Here I am on my phone. I do not desire this format. And nothing you have posted suggests that anyone wants this format.

All it shows is device, not preference.

Anytime something is recorded wide screen my wish is that it remains in that format, regardless of platform I am on.

If I’m on my phone it takes less than half a second to rotate my screen and view as intended, on my desktop I can’t do that.

Also in this case quite a bit of the original was lost, seeing the YouTube version is much better.

threelonmusketeers,

Diagonal video is obviously the superior format:

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/video_orientation.png

blazeknave, in At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book—one page at a time, by hand.

May I bring my son to visit? I know it’s typically only for events. He will crack up at the statues and be underwhelmed by the two racks containing the entire Internet.

indomara, in At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book—one page at a time, by hand.

Today I learned that firefox doesn’t like to play certain types of mp4 files. I also learned that you can copy a video link and paste it into VLC media player and it will play!

Watching these books being archived is amazing, I would love to do this!

papalonian,

I also learned that you can copy a video link and paste it into VLC media player and it will play!

You can also use this trick to download YouTube videos without the need of a 3rd party website!

  1. Copy the URL of the YouTube video you wanna download
  2. VLC / Media / Open network stream… And paste your URL
  3. Once the video has opened, Tools / Media Information
  4. Copy the URL in the “Location” field and paste it into your web browser, you should have the option to save the video

It’s a couple of steps but once you memorize what you need to do it’s a million times faster (and I’d wager equally times as private) than finding one of those websites to give you a link.

emptyother, in At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book—one page at a time, by hand.

How do you reliably turn pages that fast without accidentally grabbing two pages and skipping? Im impressed!

intensely_human,

Meditation practice helps with this kind of thing.

KnightontheSun,

That and your king fu skills as you travel the west in the search for your family’s roots.

AlmightySnoo, in At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book—one page at a time, by hand.
@AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world avatar

There are DIY tutorials for that for those interested: www.diybookscanner.org/en/intro.html

SayJess, in At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book—one page at a time, by hand.
@SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

That is really cool!

Grumpydaddy, in At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book—one page at a time, by hand.

Looks like two pages at a time to me.

vynlwombat,

Gotem

xor,

each piece of paper is a page, since they do the front of one and the back of another at the same time, it’s one page total…

Grumpydaddy,

One Sheet, Two Pages A sheet of paper has two sides. Each side is considered one page. So a single sheet of unfolded paper is two pages.

metallic_substance,

Way to throw it back on a technicality ✋

BeMoreCareful, in At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book—one page at a time, by hand.

Why not run the spine through a table saw and just use a regular document feeder?

aeronmelon,

I think they actually want to keep the book.

SinningStromgald,

Sometimes books are valuable so cutting them into bits so they can go on the Internets faster isn’t feasible.

nonailsleft,

In 10 years you can just reprint the book by molecule so why bother

Wistful, in At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book—one page at a time, by hand.
@Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Wow that seems painfully slow/tedious. Why isn’t it automatized? I think I saw a robot do like 20 pages a second on a yt some years ago.

Dave,
@Dave@lemmy.nz avatar

Google have digitised a lot of books using some more advanced tech, though they started out with something a little like this.

aeronmelon,

Do you remember the results of those speed scans? Crooked pages, parts of the document cut off, blurry scans, etc.

It was a lazy method that resulted in a lot of junk data.

Wistful,
@Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I think this is what I saw. Not quite 20 pages/s hahah and also a different method.

prenatal_confusion, (edited )

That would be interesting to see!

This is probably the method that gives you the best quality (deskewing, lighting) without cutting the back of the book and feeding it into a scanner. (AFAIK)

I saw a book scanner similar to this one that used a vacuum to turn pages but otherwise same principle.

graymess, in Quarter was rejected at the laundrymat. Someone slipped me a token for a lazer tag franchise that went bankrupt in 1997

I would love to stumble on a Q-Zar coin.

bitwolf, in Quarter was rejected at the laundrymat. Someone slipped me a token for a lazer tag franchise that went bankrupt in 1997

Could.be useful to unlock shopping carts!

xantoxis, in Quarter was rejected at the laundrymat. Someone slipped me a token for a lazer tag franchise that went bankrupt in 1997

good to see they’re still in circulation, i like to see a strong currency

cypherpunks, in Quarter was rejected at the laundrymat. Someone slipped me a token for a lazer tag franchise that went bankrupt in 1997
@cypherpunks@lemmy.ml avatar

I was pretty sure Q-Zar continued to exist well after 1997, so I checked, and yeah, there continued to be Q-Zar locations after the 97 bankruptcy of one of the companies involved.

This location in NY has diversified into Axe Throwinggoogle street view of Q-Zar Laser Tag and Q-Axe Axe Throwing

ogginger43,

I had a few birthday parties at qzar growing up in Ohio in the 2000s.

Anticorp,

Oh nice! Now OP has somewhere to spend their coin.

skulkbane, in Quarter was rejected at the laundrymat. Someone slipped me a token for a lazer tag franchise that went bankrupt in 1997

A few years ago I got a Japanese one yen back as change. Needless to say I don’t live in Japan.

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