Uploading

[nasu_dengaku]

Last week I watched papertygre  upload most of her books as she prepared to move out.

Seeing the process aroused a transhumanist sentiment in me, a glimmer of a future in which our world is gradually transformed into digital information.  It creates a sense of raw possibility and freedom, albeit tinged with a bit of emptiness.

The ability to liberate objects

Comments

[retch]

The book slicer is mildly terrifying looking. :)

[ef2p]

What is she using as a bulk scanner? And what format file does it produce? Reviews, tips, comments, warnings?

I've got a bunch of bulk scanning (not books) that I want to do.

[papertygre]

Fujitsu fi-6130. About $850, free shipping at amazon. It's awesome, but let me explain to you how the software works because there is NO documentation and it took me 2 days to figure out.

Also, are you a CMU-er? That looks like a pre-1998ish CMU login ID. I was cg39.

[ef2p]

I assume you're now in the bay area. Would you consider lending or renting it? I want to scan all my old bills, bank statements, etc

Yes, I'm a CMU-er. I was the last starting class to get that style of login, fall of 1994.

[papertygre]

Alas, I just moved to Seattle. A few days ago. I would have been happy to loan it to you. This is just the kind of thing that would be ideal in a hacker space, as a way to share the expense. Yes, I scanned all my receipts and pay stubs and the like, that was the primary use case, and the books were a bonus.

Nice. I started in 1993 :)

[papertygre]

Thanks for documenting this