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rfmcdonaldCBC observes that the Toronto Reference Library now offers a book printing service. While I don't see any indication that the library will offer more technical and non-prining services like registering an ISBN and the like, this is a decided advance.
You typically go to the library to take out a book, but now you can go to a Toronto library and make one.
The Toronto Reference Library unveiled its newest form of technology at its Digital Innovation Hub — a book printing machine.
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What’s new is the ability to self-publish books – whether your own piece of literature, a cook book, dissertation or whatever you choose for a relatively reasonable price of $145 for 10 copies of a 150-page book.
"It's like watching a birthing,” said Toronto author Nina Munteanu. She was one of the first people to use the machine.
The Asquith Press, costing about $68,000, sounds like a photocopier while it works, but the Plexiglas sides reveal each stage of the book making process.
"You can literally see the cover being made and all the pages being trimmed and glued together and being bound,” she said.
