DIY book scanning is a fairly active community, mostly organized by people interested in legal scanning of old books without having to cut off the binding to pu

DIY book scanning is a fairly active community, mostly organized by people interested in legal scanning of old books without having to cut off the binding to put the book through a sheet-fed scanner. Here's one site: http://www.diybookscanner.org/ http://www.diybookscanner.org/ And here's a 2009 article about how the Google-Books scanning rig works: http://www.npr.org/blogs/library/2009/04/the_granting_of_patent_7508978.html http://www.npr.org/blogs/library/2009/04/the_granting_of_pat...