Books to PDF

Kaise
Kaise Posts: 2,498
edited June 2011 in The hub
As everyone knows if you buy a CD you are legally allowed to make a back up copy without infringing any copyright laws, as longs it is for backup purposes and for personal use.

so, i have a lot of books that i want in storage but i think would be very useful as PDF's especially as adobe reader can search the text!

Am i breaking any copyright by cutting the spine and PDFing, and if not then where the fark do i start with text books 1000 words plus!

suggestion please
:)Ragley Blue Pig
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    kaiser83 wrote:
    As everyone knows if you buy a CD you are legally allowed to make a back up copy without infringing any copyright laws, as longs it is for backup purposes and for personal use.

    actually that is incorrect in the UK.
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  • Kaise
    Kaise Posts: 2,498
    nicklouse wrote:
    kaiser83 wrote:
    As everyone knows if you buy a CD you are legally allowed to make a back up copy without infringing any copyright laws, as longs it is for backup purposes and for personal use.

    actually that is incorrect in the UK.

    is it, well bugger me, i have always thought it was true, hmm, not that its going to stop me.
    :)Ragley Blue Pig
    :twisted: Spesh Demo 8 II
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    read and learn http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13429217 :wink:
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  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    its not illegal to make a copy of electronic media but it is to make a copy of a written text, even photocopying a page from a book in a library breaks the copyright law but they have a kind of fair usage policy.

    But scanning in whole books to create pdfs would generate a masssssive file. I'd stick with downloading porn.
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    Cleat Eastwood wrote:
    its not illegal to make a copy of electronic media

    it is.

    when applied to music and film.
    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
    Parktools :?:SheldonBrown
  • Kaise
    Kaise Posts: 2,498
    nicklouse wrote:
    read and learn http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13429217 :wink:

    :shock: cheers for that, cleared a few of my "knowledge" up a bit!

    file size isnt something i would be worried about, i'd rather have a few TB drives full of text books then a shelf full of books collecting dust!
    :)Ragley Blue Pig
    :twisted: Spesh Demo 8 II
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    nicklouse wrote:
    Cleat Eastwood wrote:
    its not illegal to make a copy of electronic media

    it is.

    when applied to music and film.
    Yes and no. Whilst the law still hasn't changed, the whole "fair use" as applied to CDs was settled a few years ago, meaning that a personal backup for your own use is kindly ignored. Although the law does still stand, it's never enforced, so to speak.
    Clear as mud then.
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    yeehaamcgee wrote:
    nicklouse wrote:
    Cleat Eastwood wrote:
    its not illegal to make a copy of electronic media

    it is.

    when applied to music and film.
    Yes and no. Whilst the law still hasn't changed, the whole "fair use" as applied to CDs was settled a few years ago, meaning that a personal backup for your own use is kindly ignored. Although the law does still stand, it's never enforced, so to speak.
    Clear as mud then.

    thats my understanding of it. Nicklouses link is just to recommendations from a report as yet not even on cards to be presented to the 2 houses for consideration.

    Written material though is another fettle of kish.
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • Raymondavalon
    Raymondavalon Posts: 5,346
    Interesting reading.. It's unusual that someone would actually bother to scan books into PDF format.

    Scans of pages are actually images and it uses a JPEG based image to create the PDF. Your PDF document containing these 'images' can sometimes be large, especially when there is colour picture / graphical contents. (A lot of organisations scan in 65K grayscale (B&W) to keep file size smaller and conversion to PDF time down

    Bear in mind, you should use a high res/DPI scanner to get the best results, but the higher the DPI the larger the [image] file will be. The lower the res/DPI, the more impurities and fade you'll get in the PDF output

    You may choose to compress the PDF in order to make it more manageable (as in smaller = easier to store, backup and/or email)
    There are free PDF compression applications out there, but the better ones usually have a small premium attached to them for home users.

    Ideally if your after the text value of these said booked opposed to the content and/or layout, you could scan and OCR them into text. Pretty that text up with MS Word or similar, then save it in PDF format.
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