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    Welcome to My Paperless World

    by Alan Burdick

    Mr. Uhlik . . . has scanned about 100 of his reference books to try to make his home library digital and searchable. Because he wants to keep the house nearly paper-free, most of his remaining 1,000 books are in a shed. He occasionally pays his children to help scan them.—New York Times, February 10, 2008

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