Re: Games - A question [getting philosophical]
On Friday 30 November 2001 05:44, John Griffiths wrote:
> At the risk of wandering WAAYY out into metaphysics...
>
> surely the novel is a binary? it can't be usefully modified and can
> only be read as-is.
>
> It'd have to be made available as a text file (or maybe printed with
> double spacing to allow annotation?) to be usefull
>
> Otherwise to make use of it you'd have to either re-type it, or scan
> and OCR
>
> which sounds analogous to de-compiling a binary to me.
Unless you want the latest Stephen King, there's Project Gutenberg
<http://www.gutenberg.org/>.
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