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Welcome back to another episode of the Apple Insider Podcast. I'm Victor and joining me is

William, what's his name? Okay, good to be back.

Thanks for that welcome.

I could see you from here looking around to see were there any alternatives,

but similarly there weren't, so I'll take that. Hi how you have you didn't

look very long either. It is good to have you back William thank you for letting me

tease you about that now we're what you were gone for like a long time?

Yes and I can't properly tell you what it is because it's a sensitive

you were you were incommunicado.

Yes I spent all of last week in a history archive researching a particular book.

Nothing to do with Apple or technology, but very intense. So I just switched off everything and concentrated on the

1700 documents I had to read and unfortunately I only managed to get through

800 in the week so I don't know what to do next. Okay. Right that's that puts you

at the supreme deficit. Right I thought you might have some sort of speed reading tip there, but yeah, not so much.

I am a fan of the concept of book scanning and being able to have these documents at your disposal rather than being locked

in the musty cellar of some moldy library.

And well I'm not but also I wasn't kidding about sensitive these documents are locked

away for 50 years I have

expressed permission to read them but no one else can so I can't take them out

can't split the load between people it It's all very, it's really interesting, but right now it's just overwhelming.

Yeah, as well. No, I like the idea of scanning for archival purposes. You know, the paper gets eaten by animals, bugs, such, it gets moldy, it runs at risk of physical

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