[pct-l] digital wilderness press guides

[Jackie McDonnell]

Hello Tanya -

I hope David does not share those pdf's with anyone; that would be a
copyright infringement.

Yogi
www.pcthandbook.com

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 7:36 AM, TANYA SAVAGE
<tanya.savage2 at btinternet.com>wrote:

> Hi David
> That sounds a great idea. Don;t suppose your pdf's would be available to
> download from anywhere would they? I have the WP guides but haven;t put
> them under the knife yet, could take some hours to scan using our little
> scanner at home!
> Tanya
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: David Money Harris <David_Harris at hmc.edu>
> To: pct-l at backcountry.net; Fan Xiong <fanxiong at uab.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, 22 February 2012, 18:51
> Subject: [pct-l] digital wilderness press guides
>
> The WP guides aren't available in digital form, but I sliced the spine
> off mine, scanned them into PDF on a big autofeed machine, ran the PDF
> through optical character recognition, and downloaded the result into my
> iphone where I use Acrobat Reader.  This gives me all three books in
> searchable digital form, albeit with a bunch of zooming in and out.
>
> It was a bit of a hassle, but saves the weight.  I did the same with
> Yogi's guide and I downloaded the Halfmile maps so I'll have the whole
> trail in my phone at all times.  I'll still carry the maps for the
> current section because the hard copy is more convenient to read.
>
> Happy hiking,
>
> DMoney
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