[fluffyllemon]

For context:

This is the third post in a series. The author (Jason Scott) is trying to save ~25,000 manuals, instruction booklets, and engineering notes (largely electronics related, created over the last 80 years). This is a large project, the company which owns the manuals currently is going out of business, and all the manuals will be thrown away very soon (re: tomorrow).

First post: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4711 Second post: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4683

[lectrick]

It is infeasible (IMHO) to deal with all physical manuals ever in this way, unless you are literally a Manuals Library that is supported by the county or whatever.

I think the only way to go forward is to digitize the shit out of everything.