User talk:Fromney

I am a voracious reader, and as I went through school, I would read anything and everything that made an impression on me. When I saw the movie War and Peace, I went to my used bookstore and bought a ratty old copy of Tolstoy's epic masterpiece, and read it from page one through page 1,298. *whew* Quite a feat for a 6th grader, but I did it. When Lawrence of Arabia was released, I went to my favorite bookseller and found an out of print copy of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom and a dog-eared old copy of the Koran.

Needless to say, my personal paper and ink library contains many hundreds of very old, very well-loved books.

But more recently, as I was running out of treasured book shelf space, and was beginning to pack my books away for storage, I thought of all the books that have been published over the past century, and I found myself wondering if there was some way I could create a digital library of these old favorites. It seemed to be a hopeless undertaking, when I went out and bought a computer scanner, and began to scan each page painstakingly onto my computer's hard drive.

My tiny 1 GB hard drive filled up to overflowing quickly, and I stopped.

Ten years later, I now have a fabulous library of thousands of old books stored in a 4GB flash drive. Amazing how times change.