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What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Mine would be creating pen and paper ciphers for my made up secret communication needs.

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[–] icybro@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I've spent a good chunk of the year making ebooks from out-of-print dead tree books. Proofing and formatting takes a ton of time. Nobody reads them but me.

[–] Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 year ago

You'll be that guy that records old shows on VHS and when he died the only record of old shows was donated to an archive/museum. A priceless contribution to humanity.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

If you don't mind, archive.org has a place where you can upload them.

[–] gruf@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

you should upload them to archive.org!

[–] MariaRomanov@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

Do you have these online somewhere?

[–] gothicdecadence@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's your process? What tools do you use??

[–] icybro@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Mobile app called vFlat to do the scans and OCR. Cleanup in Google Docs. EPUB creation in Calibre. Then for proofing, I read the whole thing on an Onyx Boox, which lets me mark it up with a stylus. Then back to Calibre.

[–] MashedTech@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Doing priceless work. Where are they online?

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

A noble endeavour. Unless we do something about it, we're going to have a huge copyright-shaped hole in our cultural history.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

put them on libgen

[–] paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I bought an out of print book for Kindle that was typed and formatted as a father-son project. So glad they took the time.