{"id":207,"date":"2010-12-12T03:50:13","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T01:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fahrnerandfahrner.com\/laughingeye\/?p=207"},"modified":"2010-12-12T03:50:13","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T01:50:13","slug":"scanned-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fahrnerandfahrner.com\/laughingeye\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"Scanned Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just downloaded a copy of the scanned version of American Bibliopolist, a monthly literary register and repository of notes and queries, dated 1873. I considered this a good find – I am at the moment writing a small book concerned with printing.<\/p>\n

The book has supposedly been carefully scanned. However pretty soon you notice that many pages are very hard to read. They remind me of my university days of hurriedly scanning a book only to notice later that many pages were missing all the words on the outside margin, that the words running into the gutter had turned to black streaks.<\/p>\n

I was just wondering how the future will look if we depend on archives of scanned books of which are missing much of their contents due to our sloppy scanning. I guess its going to be ah what the heck lets just ignore this old stuff. Sad really.<\/p>\n

I just had to rant a little… sorry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>

I just downloaded a copy of the scanned version of American Bibliopolist, a monthly literary register and repository of notes and queries, dated 1873. I considered this a good find – I am at the moment writing a small book concerned with printing. The book has supposedly been carefully scanned. However pretty soon you notice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2QD1L-3l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6,"url":"http:\/\/www.fahrnerandfahrner.com\/laughingeye\/?p=6","url_meta":{"origin":207,"position":0},"title":"latest wp update is installed","date":"May 10, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Unfortunately the last updates kept failing, and I lost quite a few posts. 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