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I am prone to believe this even though it is April 1st, if anything because it would be an incredibly lame joke. Document sharing site, Scribd, has apparently rolled out a program offering to convert your paper to its iPaper format for free. You mail your documents to them, they scan and ocr them and post them to your account on the site. According to the site you can send whole books to be scanned without destroying the binding. The catch, you need to be willing to publish the documents on their site for the word to read, and be willing to wait.

Scanning documents is a pain, and can be expensive to farm out. Not sure how much this policy will cost Scribd to implement, but there is no doubt that it should jump-start its content acquisition efforts.