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>If you haven’t read it before, don’t read the Wikipedia summary; read the actual story.

Read it from the original publication:

<https://archive.org/details/Science_Fiction_Quarterly_New_Se...>

Interesting, the text on those scans is selectable, can anyone share how this is done is it a custom font? It does not seem so as the same letter appears to be rendered differently showing printing/scan artifacts. Maybe some styling?

Could it be this MacOS feature you are seeing?

https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/interact-with-text-in...

Can also do it in Firefox on Windows.

On that note, the Preview app on MacOS does it automatically. I recently screenshotted my terminal to show a colleague and then noticed I could also copy text from that screenshot. Really cool and really helpful.

One way to do it is you OCR the text and then print the text on top in a transparent font.

OMG, I loved the original scan of this, wow, flash backs for me!!! Thank you soooo much.

BTW, anyone just cruising by this post, it might be just me, but the advertisements at the very end of it are so dear. Just take a peek, so funny!

    Use  YOUR  AMAZING  physic  (soul)
    powers  NOW!!  Why  “Develop”  for
    years???   MONEY?  HEALTH?  LOVE?
    NOTHING  IS  HOPELESS.  Remarkable
    NEW  APPROACH  (demonstrated  by
    Jesus) now verified by modern science.

Oy vey…

It seems archaic at first sight, but it's really not a million miles off from what I see in spam.

Indeed; it actually reminded me of the weird trick discovered by my mom.

Notably, the science fiction magazine had ads for people who are way into their middle age.

Somehow I don't think you'd be running the ad at the bottom of page 2 today.

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