Hit print screen.

Then go and open paint.
Select edit and then paste.
Then, use the cutting tool (dotted box) and select the portion of the page you want to have and select file and then New.
Don’t save the old document.
Then paste again in the new doc.
Then hit file and print and there you have it.
You can resize what you print by changing to landscape and margins etc.

I get to work with a lot of Knowledge Management types in my trade. Even attended many seminars on the topic. If you listen close, the approach to KM is often sold with the same or similar catch phrases as used by Marxists! Information belongs to everyone…. Each person should have access to the material they need….All should freely and willingly contribute the fruits of their labor….. Argg!

I once interrupted a briefer to pose this question. If I’m a junior level employee, but devise some wonderful technique that I’ve mastered, why should I share that mastery with the senior level employees? After all, my value to the company is measured in marketable skills and tenure. If I don’t have the later, I must sell the former.

You certainly have a point. I guess my point was that even with a random search feature, it “virtually” puts an entire copyrighted book out there on the web. Just rubs me wrong, I guess – as it does Eric and others. But no, there’s certainly nothing wrong with quoting from a book no matter how it’s obtained. You’re right. I guess I didn’t make my point very well.

LOL Cas, and you have a great point as well. Hhmm, it seems as though someone HAS recently changed the focus of Farnsworth’s Charge, eh? 🙂 Your logic makes a great deal of sense, though. I guess if you personalize it – say, you own a public domain book, perhaps a rare one – any use of it by others would be under your control. Same with a library or other repository. Can’t deny them the rights you might like to have yourself.

Still doesn’t change the fact that it’s annoying 🙂

J.D.

I suppose that one could somehow spend hours “downloading” a book by virtue of that very useful tool, but the HOURS it would take to do that would probably cost more than buying the book used. I’ve bought desired books for 99¢. I’m not concerned that they are “brand new” as long as they are legible and I don’t have to glue the spine back on. I would certainly never waste my time trying to “craft” a book from individual pages. The effort of finding how to do so (you can only go so far “turning pages” before you are prevented from going further) would be more ‘expensive’ in time and effort than buying the book at full price!

Of course, there are always those who for the sake of some twisted rationalization would rather work harder doing something illegal or immoral than to do something right – politics is full of such folks!

Now days if I can get a copy of your book in digital format (PDF, Word, or even pure digital image), I can make it look like Farnsworth charged into the middle of Pickett’s Division on July 3. Won’t hold up in court, but would be enough to annoy the average person. Might even sell some newspapers.

Basically some sort of tamper protection of the artifact, or validation of authenticity. Some trade texts call it a form of non-repudiation, but I think that a misuse of the term. Just unfortunately serves to hinder the use of a public resource. Another example of the miscreants making life hard on us honest folks.

Chuck