I use a hydraulic paper cutter at work to cut the spine off and then feed them through a Fujitsu ScanSnap. It scans double-sided straight to PDF. It takes about

I use a hydraulic paper cutter at work to cut the spine off and then feed them through a Fujitsu ScanSnap. It scans double-sided straight to PDF. It takes about 10 minutes/book to create Hi-res color PDF's. The scanner is pretty fast. My archival format is this hi-res color PDF (sadly, I like the yellowed color of old pages and like to have that retained when reading on an iPad.) These files are quite large (100 meg or so). Lucky enormous hard disks are cheap. For daily reading, I send the PDF's through an epub converter that turns them to lower res, B&W epubs and then onto a Kindle Paperwhite. I used to be bothered by the destruction of the book, but now its almost spiritual. The book must go through the ritual and give up its corporeal form so that it can live forever in my digital Valhalla.