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This is why I have been stopping in old/small local book stores for years looking for early editions of many books. You can't edit what is already printed on the page. I am even considering buying multiple editions, building one of those book-scanner-bots then hooking it up to some OCR and doing a diff between the various print versions to show exactly what was changed between editions.

What do you think? Good idea or waste of time?

This is why I have been stopping in old/small local book stores for years looking for early editions of many books. You can't edit what is already printed on the page. I am even considering buying multiple editions, building one of those book-scanner-bots then hooking it up to some OCR and doing a diff between the various print versions to show exactly what was changed between editions. What do you think? Good idea or waste of time?

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I guess I'm a luddite.

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Nothing wrong with physical media. I have it for everything. I have a very large local storage server for my movies/music/tv/etc but I have physical media that I ripped and converted it form. I backup the digitals off-site incase the physical is destroyed by a natural disaster or something.

It is a side effect of me wanting to make sure I never lose important pictures/video/etc from life for decades. Having my entertainment media also backed up is just a bonus. I also can stream it anywhere I have a internet connection and don't rely on any "cloud" service.