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Generally Speaking => Power On => Topic started by: Macawmoses on June 27, 2009, 12:33:45 AM

Title: Wikipedia In Book Form
Post by: Macawmoses on June 27, 2009, 12:33:45 AM
http://8th-circuit.com/?q=content/all-things-print-wikipedia-book

(http://8th-circuit.com/sites/default/files/wikipediabook2.jpg)

Basic gist - he's taking a whole whack of featured articles and compiling them into a book to show the comparison between books and online. Really, it's interesting....but I can't imagine it holding much impact, when most people will just ignore its existence.
Title: Re: Wikipedia In Book Form
Post by: JrDude on June 27, 2009, 12:47:04 AM
Yeaaaaaaaaa-no. Whoever buys that is an idiot.
Title: Re: Wikipedia In Book Form
Post by: Custom on June 27, 2009, 02:09:38 AM
Quote from: JrDude ♪ on June 27, 2009, 12:47:04 AM
Yeaaaaaaaaa-no. Whoever buys that is an idiot.

More like hero.
Title: Re: Wikipedia In Book Form
Post by: SkyMyl on June 27, 2009, 08:09:16 AM
Impractical, but pretty cool, actually.

How many pages are in there?
Title: Re: Wikipedia In Book Form
Post by: Macawmoses on June 27, 2009, 08:23:45 AM
No idea. It's something like 3 feet tall.
Title: Re: Wikipedia In Book Form
Post by: Lotos on June 27, 2009, 08:31:46 AM
Who would buy that?  It's a waste of paper D:
Title: Re: Wikipedia In Book Form
Post by: jnfs2014 on June 27, 2009, 08:38:22 AM
Watch as the environmentalists make them use recycled paper.
Title: Re: Wikipedia In Book Form
Post by: えっちーせんぱい on June 27, 2009, 10:41:18 AM
And this is why we should stop using paper in the world.
Title: Re: Wikipedia In Book Form
Post by: Doodle on June 27, 2009, 11:53:22 AM
That's pretty funny.
But seeing that, no one should never make a book out of Wikipedia.
Title: Re: Wikipedia In Book Form
Post by: Rayquarian on June 27, 2009, 02:59:28 PM
Where do I buy it?
Title: Re: Wikipedia In Book Form
Post by: noodle976 on June 27, 2009, 03:38:02 PM
Damn hipsters.
Title: Re: Wikipedia In Book Form
Post by: Macawmoses on June 27, 2009, 03:57:30 PM
Quote from: Rayquarian on June 27, 2009, 02:59:28 PM
Where do I buy it?
I don't think it is quite ready yet.
Title: Re: Wikipedia In Book Form
Post by: jnfs2014 on June 27, 2009, 04:30:30 PM
Would he/she just copypaste the data and print it?
Title: Re: Wikipedia In Book Form
Post by: Macawmoses on June 27, 2009, 04:47:29 PM
Quote from: JNFS2014 on June 27, 2009, 04:30:30 PM
Would he/she just copypaste the data and print it?
No, he transposed it. Everything was, at the very least, loosely rewritten.