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That would be great thanks! please note for zooming that for some weird reason, in a pdf, 250% = the real 100%. This is a big file.
So I got home and I did the test. The quality of the scan is really high, so it looks decent on the Kindle. I think it is readable, but it will be a bit harder to read if you have to zoom in because the Kindle refreshes the whole page whenever there’s a change somewhere and that means that you’ll see the screen flicking a bit everytime you move around the zoomed in page. It is not as bad as I thought and it might actually work for you, but I still think you should do a hands-on test before you buy one. I took a few screenshots and a few pictures of your document and how it comes up on the Kindle, hopefully it helps 🙂
( I posted the links to the pictures because they are really big )
http://i.imgur.com/0qygK49.png – This is a screenshot of the Kindle Screen with the original document – The screen is brighter then that, see the next picture
http://i.imgur.com/1ZEIINi.jpg – This is a picture of the Kindle with the original documenthttp://i.imgur.com/zPwiF4c.png – This is a screenshot of the Kindle Screen with the zoomed-in document – The screen is brighter then that, see the next picture
http://i.imgur.com/4oDUlcq.jpg – This is a picture of the Kindle with the zoomed-in documentI’m sorry for the quality of the pictures, they were taken with my brother’s DSLR and I have almost no idea how to use it (derp). If you have any other questions, please ask.
Thanks so much! It’s actually far better quality, seen in the 3rd image, than I had expected! Really appreciate all your effort.
I’m glad I could help ! 🙂 If you make up your mind and you get one, I’d love to hear how it works for you. Also, what equipment do you use to turn those manuscripts into digital items ?
A bit photo-tech geeky 🙂 . The photographs were taken with a Mamiya DF camera using a Leaf Aptus II 40 megaixel medium format digital back. The lighting is Profoto D1’s and the manuscripts are held in a custom Mayer Traveller book cradle built to my specifications. Our document station uses the same lighting but a Nikon D800e with a Mamiya manual focus 80mm macro lens on a high end Kaiser Copy Stand. I manage a studio for a museum and we digitise manuscripts, scrolls and documents going back over the past 800 years.
That’s so cool. I wanted to digitalize some books in Romanian that are not available online and then I’d like to use some software to take a picture and transform it into .docx
The trick is totally even lighting. To be frank using a scanner will be easier but much, much slower. When you’re up to that stage I’d be glad to help you out with the digitising end of things. I’m not up to date on the turning into text I’m afraid, the stuff I deal with is ancient and software doesn’t read it 🙂
I finally went to the dark side and bought a Kindle Paperwhite after Thanksgiving last year. I am a lover of the printed book, but I move way too often to maintain a big collection. I gave away over a hundred books of mine with my last move and that was the final push to purchase an ereader. I do enjoy the Paperwhite. The main thing it has going for it for my purposes is the ability to read in low-light. If I’m at work and we’re posting (sitting in the ambulance in a random parking lot covering multiple truck’s areas while they are all on calls) at night, it’s awesome. I can still read without turning on the overhead light and potentially bothering my partner. I can read while lying on bunk in the station and not disturb anyone else or have to find a lamp. The ability to immediately get a book and start reading is obviously a huge plus, too. The major drawback I find is price of books. It’s just hard for me to stomach paying just as much as (and a lot of times more) for a Kindle book then a “real” version of the same book. Most books I read are military history and you can routinely find them for $4 like new used on Amazon. Paying $10 or more for a digitized version annoys me to no end. I tend to swap back and forth between reading a book on my Kindle and reading one of my “real” books that I own or borrowing a library book. Mixing back and forth between mediums seems to work well for me. I love owning 2 1/2 bookcases filled with books in my living room that I can admire and touch and smell and I also love having one small device that can store so many books and reduce clutter.
I finally went to the dark side and bought a Kindle Paperwhite after Thanksgiving last year. I am a lover of the printed book, but I move way too often to maintain a big collection. I gave away over a hundred books of mine with my last move and that was the final push to purchase an ereader. I do enjoy the Paperwhite. The main thing it has going for it for my purposes is the ability to read in low-light. If I’m at work and we’re posting (sitting in the ambulance in a random parking lot covering multiple truck’s areas while they are all on calls) at night, it’s awesome. I can still read without turning on the overhead light and potentially bothering my partner. I can read while lying on bunk in the station and not disturb anyone else or have to find a lamp. The ability to immediately get a book and start reading is obviously a huge plus, too. The major drawback I find is price of books. It’s just hard for me to stomach paying just as much as (and a lot of times more) for a Kindle book then a “real” version of the same book. Most books I read are military history and you can routinely find them for $4 like new used on Amazon. Paying $10 or more for a digitized version annoys me to no end. I tend to swap back and forth between reading a book on my Kindle and reading one of my “real” books that I own or borrowing a library book. Mixing back and forth between mediums seems to work well for me. I love owning 2 1/2 bookcases filled with books in my living room that I can admire and touch and smell and I also love having one small device that can store so many books and reduce clutter.
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