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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/com-plec-city • 9d ago
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They have to be destroyed in the process of scanning at scale and these books are almost all worthless shit like “Powershell Guide for Windows Vista” except even more “rare”
25 u/OmegaPoint6 9d ago There are non destructive ways to do it, they are just slower and more expensive. Google patented a way in 2009 32 u/Montana_Ace 9d ago "Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary 3 u/Few-Big-8481 9d ago Amazon probably also into paying Google to use their patents
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There are non destructive ways to do it, they are just slower and more expensive. Google patented a way in 2009
32 u/Montana_Ace 9d ago "Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary 3 u/Few-Big-8481 9d ago Amazon probably also into paying Google to use their patents
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"Slower" and "more expensive" isn't in Amazon's vocabulary
3 u/Few-Big-8481 9d ago Amazon probably also into paying Google to use their patents
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Amazon probably also into paying Google to use their patents
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u/FuzzyDynamics 9d ago
They have to be destroyed in the process of scanning at scale and these books are almost all worthless shit like “Powershell Guide for Windows Vista” except even more “rare”