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RE "....There's already a known way for scanning magazines and books very fast: cut the spine and feed the pages to an automatic scanner. This is of course not
by asdefghyk 3y ago
RE "....There's already a known way for scanning magazines and books very fast: cut the spine and feed the pages to an automatic scanner. This is of course not applicable to anything you'd like to keep around after scanning, because your copy is destroyed......" I've always thought the pages could be rebound. Not perfect but a halfway solution.
- Double_a_92 3y agoI guess you could, but everything where you would even consider cutting the spine is probably not worth fixing afterwards. E.g. it's a contemporary magazine, where you could just buy 2 if you really need to keep a physical copy.
- Dellu 3y agoCutting the spine and feeding it to the scanner is the most cost effective method for most modern books.
- keybpo 3y agoMost signatures (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_(bookbinding) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_(bookbinding)) are glue bounded, not just sewn. Some use cases prefer/require the pages to be unbound because the printing goes all the way into the gutter and cutting the spine can also leave out some data. It's highly inneficient as you have to heat the spine carefully and then remove the glue residues. A tiny glue leftover can smear your autofeed scanner if not completely jam and tear the page. For a unique item, makes sense using a non-destructive scanning method, but for anything else, a carefully cut spine (or better yet, a bookbinding plow https://duckduckgo.com/?t=palemoon&q=bookbinding+plow&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?t=palemoon&q=bookbinding+plow&iax=im... ) leave a perfect cut and the loose pages can be kept in a ziplog bag for any future reference.