Information, information everywhere but not a drop to sync!!!

Here are two articles relating to information access (and the hassles that come in the same package). This is a telling tale of haves, who have to go thro' hope, resiliency, perseverance and much more (if they are not bored) in making their ends meet!!! Can you hear me now? :

Locked in the Ivory Tower: Why JSTOR Imprisons Academic Research. By Laura McKenna, theatlantic.com : Universities have to pay thousands of dollars every year to read their own research online. Blame the broken economics of academic publishing.

The solutions to all our problems may be buried in PDFs that nobody reads. BY CHRISTOPHER INGRAHAM, washingtonpost.com : One final irony to ponder: You know that World Bank report, about how nobody reads its PDFs? It's only available as a PDF. Given the attention it's receiving, it may also be one of their most-downloaded reports ever.

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Scanner for ebook cannot tell its 'arms' from its 'anus'

 

• Scanner for ebook cannot tell its 'arms' from its 'anus'
: A technical problem with optical character recognition software creates some awkward moments in romantic novels theguardian.com

On the same shelf:

Top 5 embarrassing misprints  theguardian.com:

You'd think the substitution of anuses for arms was as good as a misprint gets, but such hilarious scanning errors are merely the latest in a long history of printing goofs. Here are some of the best. Can you find better ones?
1. The Wicked Bible
2. Ground black people
3. Jonathan Franzen's massive parade of typos
4. Like chips in the sea
5. Guardian Chistmas card

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