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Right. A community exists for people who make their own book scanners: http://www.diybookscanner.org/ http://www.diybookscanner.org/ , but book scanning is real
by mcav 15y ago
Right. A community exists for people who make their own book scanners: http://www.diybookscanner.org/ http://www.diybookscanner.org/ , but book scanning is really quite tedious and hardly worth it unless you really need one book a lot. There were previous discussions about this on HN in which the consensus was that book scanning wasn't really feasible for more than a book or two due to time.
- fastfinner 15y agoic, thanks. I hope the day when every book can be purchased in electronic form comes soon!
- reitzensteinm 15y agoSurely it would be a lot easier if you were willing to destroy the book in the process? You'd just need a scanner that will feed pages through like a printer, and to merge the page numbers if it's a one sided scanner. The scanners on that page are ridiculously cool.