Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Edmund Burke A reader recommended using a scanner pen to digitize passages from books (thank you Amy :-)). Personally, I haven’t tried it, but it looks like a useful way to digitize text without damaging the book. Amy writes about this (Ectaco C-Pen. 3.0 Multilingual Handheld OCR Scanner Pen) scanner pen: I looked into several, and my model is not Bluetooth enabled, so I have to have a USB cable tethered. It’s a nuisance, but 1) it was cheaper to test a new gadget I might not keep and 2) some reviewers say the Bluetooth is spotty — that you have to “finish” a scan within 15 seconds or the connection gets garbled. But since the software concatenates line-break-hyphens, I can scan over about 10 lines, or a full paragraph without stopping if I wanted. But the Bluetooth would be handy when space is tight, like on a plane. It’s been very useful. I find I can “highlight” even faster than I could with a regular highlighter and it still keeps up with me. It’s not good for very large print (like large chapter titles) but I usually scan the running heads, [...]
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