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The longest running position of employment I’ve ever had was working for Wildcat Textbooks for roughly three years. I’m reliving it a little right now in a surreal way. I’ve discovered that Delicious Library allows me to use my built-in camera on my lap top to SCAN BOOKS!! It’s so rad.
Update: Stephen Hawking just spoke as a result of scanning “Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays.” Yeah. So, when you scan any book there’s a computerized female voice that reads back the title aloud to you. Which happened with S.Hawking’s book, but then, a second later a DIFFERENT computerized voice, the authors, says, “Did I tell you about my Hawking radiation? It was named after me. Hawking radiation is emitted when one particle is sucked into a black hole, and the other particle escapes.” I know this is not a figment of my imagination. I had to repeat the process several times to make sure I got the quote right. My first thought was that I could find this quote on the cover, or somewhere in the book. I have not read the book yet, but it’s not on the cover, and not on page 170-171 where Hawking radiation is discussed. A short foray into the interwebs proves this not to be an entirely unusual phenomena. It does count as an Easter Egg though.
So it’s a program that lets you do it? Or is it a website?