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Land back, from every river to every sea ~ researcher/librarian/archivist of the "queer ways in which a people resist innovations" (bush 1945, 123-4) ~ they

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ANTI-RACIST RESOURCES
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@becimay https://t.co/CCkFc8uWJq

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@decoratedshed genuinely, I look forward to the new epub format being mandated by the ADA and international equivalents so publishers and info. profs. can provide accessible copy complete with the fixed layout metadata. I'm sorry somehow this turned about me being ignorant and uncurious

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@decoratedshed I don't think you're engaging with my comment but I'm glad to hear of these changes, which seem perfectly appropriate for the context in which they're happening

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@decoratedshed I don't think asking you what the issues are with pdf to epub conversion when the OCR is done properly is ableist but if that's what you think I appreciate your feedback and will take that to heart / look for that information elsewhere

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@decoratedshed are there issues when you convert it to epub or txt

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@decoratedshed there's still issues with regards to making archival-grade digital copy accessible to vision impaired scholars and readers but that's also a separate problem

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@decoratedshed I'm sorry, I checked and since the last time I'd looked, Epub 3.3 has added fixed layout mechanisms that can preserve pagination information https://t.co/oM7pXe3wdm

that's my bad. in my experience most publishers still do not provide that information but that's a separate pblm

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@decoratedshed if it is in fact a book I made a scan for, I'll gladly fix the OCR and convert it to epub

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@decoratedshed that being said I love seeing a ~200mb pdf with blurry pages and fucked up OCR. I've made a few myself, and might be responsible for the communist book that upset you. in which case I am genuinely sorry

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@decoratedshed so do I? I'm sorry, I'm not trying to argue with you. I'm saying academic readers read whole books too and epub and other proprietary ebook formats are (intentionally, I suspect) not appropriately designed for extensive referential use. I'm not trying to critique what you do

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@decoratedshed Some books I can't get as pdfs, I can only get as ebooks (I have a ~200?). I don't love having to use an ebook, but I have used them and would have saved you this conversation if I didn't feel like I had a meaningful experience with the thing you were discussing

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@decoratedshed most academic readers need to be able to know what page number the text is from. I agree it's not as big a number of people as non-academic readers! but I don't think it's a negligible number

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@decoratedshed actually it was an ipod touch, because I did not have a smartphone until 2014. I will never do that again. I do scan books with my phone though

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@decoratedshed the only book I've ever read on my phone is Dracula, because I was incredibly bored at a new year's party in 2009

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@decoratedshed so you're asking me how I read pdfs of books?

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@decoratedshed I'm sorry I don't know what this means

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@decoratedshed if an epub can't do page numbers it's failed as an access format. maybe not for most uses but for a meaningful portion of them it has. They're both failed formats