Well, Me. My name is Shawn Day and I am a PhD student in the History Department at 
Dec 12
Here’s a thought provoking piece of technology in action…
but what is particularly intriguing is that it is replicating the human action of turning pages “so as to avoid having to damage the binding.” It of course begs the question over how user-defined the nature of the printed media is, but certainly represents a wonderful adaptation of machine to the task at hand. Click the photo to go to the manufacturer’s site - there a really cool animated gif of the machine actually reading a book. A task it accomplishes at the rate of 2,400 pages per hour.
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