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WHY do people think everything needs to be cropped to hell just to fit on their phone. The screen rotates. Just twist it around ya lazy bastards.

Anyhow, here’s a link to the full size video that isn’t pointlessly cut down by 75%: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QThaHpkFVzw

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This video comes from the official Internet Archive TikTok page. I’m not sure if that makes it better or worse lol!

https://www.tiktok.com/@weareinternetarchive/video/7329355972428696874

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5 points

Explains its existence at least.

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The video contains all necessary information and you don’t need to turn your phone. I don’t see a problem here.

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.piped.video/watch?v=QThaHpkFVzw

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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I’m with you but it’s not about being lazy, just like shit audio being on most videos these days this is yet another symptom of tiktok bullshit.

Videos with shit sounds get more traction and tiktok wants every video to be scrollable without havin to turn your phone and shit so the result is trash like this getting pumped out which ruins the actual video content

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Why care? In a second I’ll leave this video and never think of it again. The key point is conveyed, and we are all done.

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Because someone went out of their way to mutilate a video for no reason, so I’m gonna go out of my way to make it right. Just because you can’t be bothered to care doesn’t mean everyone else is just like you.

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This isn’t a “significant” video. By any standard. Digest the information and move on. Doing otherwise is fist fighting the waves on the beach.

Most importantly, the purpose and message of the video is conveyed.

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Wouldn’t it be great to have it dynamic based on device?

Anyway, everyone’ll have to get off our lawn.

For the average world netizen…

…OP’s is the desirable format.

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88 points

Looks like two pages at a time to me.

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each piece of paper is a page, since they do the front of one and the back of another at the same time, it’s one page total…

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42 points

One Sheet, Two Pages A sheet of paper has two sides. Each side is considered one page. So a single sheet of unfolded paper is two pages.

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4 points

One sheet, two leaves, four pages.

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18 points

Is that why each sheet of paper has the same page number on both sides in books? Oh wait they don’t.

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2 points

;)

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8 points

Gotem

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2 points

c/theydidthemath /s

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58 points

Thank you, Internet Archive.

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Please remember to make a donation to the Internet Archive for the invaluable work they do!

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We so appreciate your efforts, but ya’ll need more funding so you can start working smart and not hard. From the looks of things, I see no reason why page flips can’t be automated there.

I just made a donation. Please use it to save this poor woman from the tedious task you’ve shown us today.

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I think this is one of those things that seems like it should be easy to automate, but actually has lots of hidden complexity.

They probably don’t use this to scan commonly available books, because for those you can just cut the spine off the book and scan the pages in a regular scanner.

This is likely used for books that need to be preserved and can’t be damaged during the scanning process.

How do you make a machine that will always turn exactly one page and never tear a page, while adapting for different page sizes and thicknesses, and avoiding the static charge that can make pages stick together? All for less money than it costs to pay people to operate this machine.

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Iirc they did experience with automation before and did get it to copy well…

But like you said, it would damage books pretty frequently. That’s not what you’d want for old and fragile materials which are rather irreplaceable.

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2 points

Vacuum!

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13 points

We should start doing charity style TV ads.

“You, too, can help us build page turners and save the lives of dozens of archivists. Just £2 a month will allow Margaret to finally rest.”

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Man I got some friends who are archivists, and they’d love that shit lol.

They love their field, but it’s a lot of mind-numbing work

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9 points

I’d just use a bandsaw to cut off the spine and stick it in a document feeder.

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38 points

Leave that poor woman alone you psycho!

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12 points

If the book is not that easily available (old, rare), it’s much better to keep it intact.

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1 point

This must be how you get “binders full of women”

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