Indeed, the book scanning project at Google at one point involved removing the spine of a book with a bandsaw, then scanning the loose pages. For fun, they col

Indeed, the book scanning project at Google at one point involved removing the spine of a book with a bandsaw, then scanning the loose pages. For fun, they collected the sawed-off spines and glued them to boards fashioned to look like bookcases. The office looked like a library, but there were no books on the "shelves," only spines.