It's entirely possible to have counterfeits of higher quality than the original. They will happily copy and reproduce the text. With both of these, the only thing preventing anyone from simply copying the text, is the law, and there are lots of people (nations, even) that have absolutely no respect at all for the law. To make it even more convenient, almost all software is already rendered into electronic form. Once it is written, reproducing it is trivial. It can take months for an author to write a book that I can read in a couple of days (unless the author is Mercedes Lackey, or James Patterson). I have heard of OCR software that does a lot better than mine. I also have software that will OCR those scans. I have a scanner, under my desk, that will completely scan a book, if I unbind that book, and drop in the pages.

In order for a book to work, the words must all be delivered in readable format whether printed out on a physical media, or delivered electronically, as text strings.īecause of that, copying the text is trivial. Well, this illustrates the issue that many corporate entities have about open-sourcing their software code.Ī book is a bunch of words, delivered to a reader via some medium. you are unwelcome unless you're buying stuff (coffee, supplies etc) or part of one of the groups that makes substantial donations when they're not making noise. I got the sense if you're not using it to do remote work, or as a community center, but to. I honestly don't have that impression at all. Someone else commented that the library is one of the last noncommercial spaces. I hope taking the time and energy to type that out helps. but now having them held in spaces those who couldn't afford them used to do self education.) (Also, it was often not new users - just bigger, more elaborate programs for the same rich kids from the suburbs who used to pay for special camps and programs. That is my core complaint - that both those spaces and those resources in the monetary sense divert disproporionately to folks who, frankly, sometimes interact in ways that make me question why they strive so hard to interact with teenagers all day. In a library.Īnd what you'd think would happen is someone would go 'oh, you're in IT? I know someone looking for that' and solve the issue.Īnd then instead, they treat it like a game - or worse, start acting purposefully othering. So picture you're trying to study for OSCP, and you can't find a space that's quiet. (Turns out a common trope is people don't want to socialize with someone who 'lives with their parents' or is un/under employed.) I myself have been coming in and out of their space trying to job hunt. My issue is they did this at the expense of other, more disadvantaged groups.

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