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Feb. 14th, 2021 03:41 pmMe, running my copy of Winter of Fire through a homemade scanner rig: "Hey, childhood selves! Remember that time you tried to make a digital copy of this book by hand-transcribing it into OpenOffice (and it was a massive project and you were never able to complete it)? Check out this present I got you! The future is pretty sweet sometimes."
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(I hadn't even absorbed touch-typing yet! I had to keep looking back and forth between the page and the keyboard! I'm proud of my past selves for making it as far as they did, really.
(That being said, I do think there's a valuable lesson here about the power of automation. Even now, with a vastly increased ability to *obtain* automation methods I find out about, I still tend to default to the obvious-but-tedious methods of doing things without first checking if there's a better way.))
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(I hadn't even absorbed touch-typing yet! I had to keep looking back and forth between the page and the keyboard! I'm proud of my past selves for making it as far as they did, really.
(That being said, I do think there's a valuable lesson here about the power of automation. Even now, with a vastly increased ability to *obtain* automation methods I find out about, I still tend to default to the obvious-but-tedious methods of doing things without first checking if there's a better way.))
