Why is Giles having his texts scanned?

[dragonyphoenix]

In the eight episode -  i, robot ... you, jane - why is Giles having his texts scanned? Jenny makes some comment about an index and a database but Giles hasn't gone near it. Given how much of a Luddite Giles is, the database is obviously not for him. He has no interest in using it at all.

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[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

I've never thought about it, but how about this: Sunnydale High doesn't have a principal at the moment (Flutie dead, Snyder not yet in town). So teachers can pretty much make up their own rules for a few weeks. So Jenny, being a technopagan and jealous of Giles' collection of occult texts, decides to invent the scanning program just so she can have her own digital copies of his books.

Which means the message of the episode is "E-book piracy is evil". 10 years before Amazon came out with the Kindle, even.

[velvetwhip.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... maybe Willow wants them scanned so she can access them from home.


Gabrielle

Monday, October 28

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[devo79.livejournal.com]

Plot device.

Pure and simple *shrugs*

[zooeys-bridge.livejournal.com]

As a librarian and archivist, I can attest to the fact that digitizing is a massive undertaking. It would have taken years and a lot of money to get a database up to anywhere near useful. All revved up though, it would be extremely useful to the Scoobies. How good was OCR software back in 1998? An index and keyword search would have been totally boss. I'm thinking about this way too hard.

(Jenny obviously wore the pants)