I was reading Smithsonian’s 40th anniversary issue when I ran across this article on the future of reading.
Since I was on my iPad, I had to take this screenshot.
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“In my day, we clipping interesting articles with scissors and put it in a folder—a real physical thing made out of cardboard paper—and into something called a filing cabinet. That ‘desktop’ thing was just a metaphor for real physical stuff we used.”
“That’s crazy talk, grandpa!”
My wife still clips items out of the Sunday Times. Good thing too because they've put a paywall up on their site, and besides, much of their Irish content isn't available on the UK website 🙁
Hopefully that will change. These companies should remember they’re not in the newspaper business, they’re in the media business.
Taking a screenshot of text to put it in another program to OCR it just don't feel right.
My recent post Big Brother Indoctrination at a School Near You
You can download the text of most articles on Zinio. But one thing about the OCR of screenshots. They’re more accurate than scans. 🙂
A PDF + screenshot combo container or similar would be pretty interesting. Does something like that exist? It's ironic how primitive copy still is.
Amazon now says that eBooks passed hardcover sales.