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12:53 AM

@Randal'Thor I used to do that as well. Then I realized (or maybe Jenayah suggested?) that most of the time feeding a screenshot to OCR does a pretty good job and is much less tedious.

@Alex Apparently she only suggested it for Hebrew:

in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Aug 23 '19 at 22:33, by Jenayah

@Alex well, isn't there some online OCR scanner for Hebrew?

So I must have discovered English on my own.

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Tsundoku

1:18 PM

@Randal'Thor Just wondering if you were going to post a new installment of "best Q&A from the last quarter" ...

Rand al'Thor

@Tsundoku Ah yes, thanks for the reminder. I'll do that soon.

5 hours later…

Tsundoku

6:36 PM

The Korean folklore reading challenge now contains a link to this translation of Korean Folk Tales on Archive.org.

1 hour later…

Rand al'Thor

7:49 PM

@Tsundoku And done. Maybe we can add a featured tag after a while, when some of the other currently hot discussions have been wrapped up.

Now to try and remember which posts I was planning to nominate this quarter ... I did have some in mind, but didn't take a note of them ...

Librarian

Q: Best Questions & Answers from 2nd Quarter of 2020

Here's the latest installment in what's now becoming a grand old tradition of gathering some particularly good Literature Q&A in order to get some easily available links to show off to people. Since Literature has a community-run Twitter account, one use for this post will be to gather links for ...