Okay. So, I've read the Engadget writeup and the full story at prweb. I have two questions. 1) Both writeups insist that you can get books free of charge. Who on earth is paying for this? With one or two notable exceptions, my school's library doesn't let you print much of anything for free. And I'm a paying student, so, presumably, the few pages I AM permitted to print are covered by the exorbitant tuition the school exacts from me. Books? For free? 200,000+ of them? What am I missing? And what's to stop a man (say, um... me) from visiting this machine, and printing myself free copies of dozens (hundreds? thousands?) of books? I'd love to believe that the world was altruistic enough to really offer free books to whoever wants them, but I have a strong feeling there's a catch lurking here somewhere. And 2) ...What does espresso have to do with anything?
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absurdio @ Jun 21st 2007 7:01PM
Okay. So, I've read the Engadget writeup and the full story at prweb. I have two questions.
1) Both writeups insist that you can get books free of charge. Who on earth is paying for this? With one or two notable exceptions, my school's library doesn't let you print much of anything for free. And I'm a paying student, so, presumably, the few pages I AM permitted to print are covered by the exorbitant tuition the school exacts from me. Books? For free? 200,000+ of them? What am I missing? And what's to stop a man (say, um... me) from visiting this machine, and printing myself free copies of dozens (hundreds? thousands?) of books? I'd love to believe that the world was altruistic enough to really offer free books to whoever wants them, but I have a strong feeling there's a catch lurking here somewhere.
And 2) ...What does espresso have to do with anything?
John @ Jun 21st 2007 7:18PM
"What does espresso have to do with anything?"
It means fast or quickly in Italian. Ever wondered why it is spelled like "express?"
murray @ Jun 21st 2007 8:18PM
"AdSense"