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The scanning process sounds sounds monotonous enough that it isn't worth it for most books. I'd just shell out the 10 bucks and get a perfect digital copy from
by sandofsky 16y ago
The scanning process sounds sounds monotonous enough that it isn't worth it for most books. I'd just shell out the 10 bucks and get a perfect digital copy from the Amazon store.
However, textbook publishers should be terrified. Imagine if N classmates agreed to split the cost of one copy. For many college students, the savings is worth more than a couple hours of free time.
- petercooper 16y agoIt'd also be interesting if publishers of older, established books could scan their own books and sell them. There are quite a few books I own that I'd like in PDF format that aren't available in any digital formats (though even if they were, I'd prefer an "original formatting" PDF than a Kindle Mobi with their typically shoddy typography and car crash diagrams).
- donw 16y agoI have a large number of books that aren't available on Amazon, especially foreign-language books. If this can produce good-quality images, suitable for OCR/PDF, then it becomes a lot easier than building my own scanning machine.