Comments on: Every member of Congress should read this book! http://firedoglake.com/2007/09/03/every-member-of-congress-should-read-this-book/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:51:10 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: molly http://firedoglake.com/2007/09/03/every-member-of-congress-should-read-this-book/#comment-942099 molly Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:04:36 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/09/03/every-member-of-congress-should-read-this-book/#comment-942099 <p>Since FDL is activist…could you put contact Harry Reid and contact Nancy Pelost on your website? I’m challenged to say the least so go to whitenoiseinsanity and with 2 clicks email Nancy. …which I just did with” Nixon was impeached for 17 illegal wiretaps. You say impeachment is off the table.Bush has wire tapped America. I’m so proud of the first woman speaker.”</p> Since FDL is activist…could you put contact Harry Reid and contact Nancy Pelost on your website? I’m challenged to say the least so go to whitenoiseinsanity and with 2 clicks email Nancy. …which I just did with” Nixon was impeached for 17 illegal wiretaps. You say impeachment is off the table.Bush has wire tapped America. I’m so proud of the first woman speaker.”

]]> By: Marty Akashi http://firedoglake.com/2007/09/03/every-member-of-congress-should-read-this-book/#comment-941663 Marty Akashi Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:08:41 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/09/03/every-member-of-congress-should-read-this-book/#comment-941663 <p>LHP, why don’t you get the IRISPen EXECUTIVE hand-held scan-to-text device? It’d quicken up the input. Check it out on MacMall.</p> <p>Sounds like an interesting primer.</p> LHP, why don’t you get the IRISPen EXECUTIVE hand-held scan-to-text device? It’d quicken up the input. Check it out on MacMall.

Sounds like an interesting primer.

]]> By: Valley Girl http://firedoglake.com/2007/09/03/every-member-of-congress-should-read-this-book/#comment-941219 Valley Girl Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:12:36 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/09/03/every-member-of-congress-should-read-this-book/#comment-941219 <p><a href="#comment-940813"><em>looseheadprop @ 105</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>aren’t there copyright issues with that?</p></blockquote> <p>LHP- I only use it for scanning portions of text- mostly figure legends- from a textbook that the students are already required to buy for the course. I use parts for PowerPoints, and these are available only to class members. I assume this is “fair use”.</p> looseheadprop @ 105

aren’t there copyright issues with that?

LHP- I only use it for scanning portions of text- mostly figure legends- from a textbook that the students are already required to buy for the course. I use parts for PowerPoints, and these are available only to class members. I assume this is “fair use”.

]]> By: wigwam http://firedoglake.com/2007/09/03/every-member-of-congress-should-read-this-book/#comment-940847 wigwam Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:34:55 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/09/03/every-member-of-congress-should-read-this-book/#comment-940847 <p><a href="#comment-940815"><em>looseheadprop @ 106</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>Though in this case, it’s for the purpose of promoiting the origanial work, so that’s would fall under the fair use doctrine.</p></blockquote> <p>Most serious office copying machines are actually a scanner plus printer with a small computer in between. Most of them can be hooked to a network and used independently as scanners, printers, and/or copiers. </p> <p>Standalone autofeed duplex (two-sided) scanners run from $500 on up, depending on speed, reliability (e.g., double-feed detection), capacities etc. Fujitsu and Kodak seem to be the most respected brands. (scantastik.com has a good website for comparisons.)</p> <p>I’m told that a lot of law offices scan everything in sight so that they can electronically search through documents. (I first heard of this being done by the Simpson defense team.)</p> looseheadprop @ 106

Though in this case, it’s for the purpose of promoiting the origanial work, so that’s would fall under the fair use doctrine.

Most serious office copying machines are actually a scanner plus printer with a small computer in between. Most of them can be hooked to a network and used independently as scanners, printers, and/or copiers.

Standalone autofeed duplex (two-sided) scanners run from $500 on up, depending on speed, reliability (e.g., double-feed detection), capacities etc. Fujitsu and Kodak seem to be the most respected brands. (scantastik.com has a good website for comparisons.)

I’m told that a lot of law offices scan everything in sight so that they can electronically search through documents. (I first heard of this being done by the Simpson defense team.)

]]> By: looseheadprop http://firedoglake.com/2007/09/03/every-member-of-congress-should-read-this-book/#comment-940815 looseheadprop Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:14:51 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/09/03/every-member-of-congress-should-read-this-book/#comment-940815 <p>Though in this case, it’s for the purpose of promoiting the origanial work, so that’s would fall under the fair use doctrine.</p> Though in this case, it’s for the purpose of promoiting the origanial work, so that’s would fall under the fair use doctrine.

]]> By: looseheadprop http://firedoglake.com/2007/09/03/every-member-of-congress-should-read-this-book/#comment-940813 looseheadprop Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:14:04 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/09/03/every-member-of-congress-should-read-this-book/#comment-940813 <p>aren’t there copyright issues with that?</p> aren’t there copyright issues with that?

]]> By: Valley Girl http://firedoglake.com/2007/09/03/every-member-of-congress-should-read-this-book/#comment-940787 Valley Girl Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:00:11 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/09/03/every-member-of-congress-should-read-this-book/#comment-940787 <p>Optical character recognition- my scanner had a program bundled with it- scan page or part of page of text, send it to program. text goes to word document. Hugely useful for teaching I’ve found. A lawyer friend intro-d me to it. She scanned a bunch of typical contracts to use bits and pieces for boilerplate.</p> Optical character recognition- my scanner had a program bundled with it- scan page or part of page of text, send it to program. text goes to word document. Hugely useful for teaching I’ve found. A lawyer friend intro-d me to it. She scanned a bunch of typical contracts to use bits and pieces for boilerplate.

]]> By: Peterr http://firedoglake.com/2007/09/03/every-member-of-congress-should-read-this-book/#comment-940786 Peterr Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:00:04 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/09/03/every-member-of-congress-should-read-this-book/#comment-940786 <p><a href="#comment-940780"><em>looseheadprop @ 102</em></a></p> <blockquote><p>Explain please:</p> <p>OCR=</p> <p>OCD=</p> <p>?</p></blockquote> <p>Optical character recognition.</p> <p>You scan in a piece of printed text, run the software, and it converts it into a document for a word processor. (Depending on the software and the quality of the scan, you may or may not have to do a lot of proofreading to catch errors.)</p> looseheadprop @ 102

Explain please:

OCR=

OCD=

?

Optical character recognition.

You scan in a piece of printed text, run the software, and it converts it into a document for a word processor. (Depending on the software and the quality of the scan, you may or may not have to do a lot of proofreading to catch errors.)

]]> By: looseheadprop http://firedoglake.com/2007/09/03/every-member-of-congress-should-read-this-book/#comment-940780 looseheadprop Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:55:44 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/09/03/every-member-of-congress-should-read-this-book/#comment-940780 <p>Explain please:</p> <p>OCR=</p> <p>OCD=</p> <p>?</p> Explain please:

OCR=

OCD=

?

]]> By: wigwam http://firedoglake.com/2007/09/03/every-member-of-congress-should-read-this-book/#comment-940753 wigwam Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:27:28 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/09/03/every-member-of-congress-should-read-this-book/#comment-940753 <p><a href="#comment-940689"><em>Peterr @ 84</em></a></p> <blockquote><p><a href="#comment-940681"><em>wigwam @ 80</em></a></p> <blockquote> <p>Since the book is in looseleaf format, it can easily scanned and OCR’d, which would largely overcome LHP’s lament:</p></blockquote> <p>You can scan and OCD for personal use, but do be careful about copyright infringement if you go beyond that. We are talking about a book written by lawyers, after all.</p></blockquote> <p>I was thinking in terms of eas of quoting, i.e., saving keystrokes.</p> Peterr @ 84

wigwam @ 80

Since the book is in looseleaf format, it can easily scanned and OCR’d, which would largely overcome LHP’s lament:

You can scan and OCD for personal use, but do be careful about copyright infringement if you go beyond that. We are talking about a book written by lawyers, after all.

I was thinking in terms of eas of quoting, i.e., saving keystrokes.

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