I would pay for this service. I have a bookcase full of textbooks of $60-$120 a piece that I'd love to have digitized for like 10-20 bucks per kindle-readable

I would pay for this service. I have a bookcase full of textbooks of $60-$120 a piece that I'd love to have digitized for like 10-20 bucks per kindle-readable book. Rebuying it on Amazon usually costs the same ridiculously high price or higher, and the books aren't always prepared nicely either. I think this is actually a great business idea. Imagine you could just send in, or drop off books that you then receive in DRM free glorious PDF or other nice e-book formats. Would it work legally? edit: wtf there's a community built around book scanning http://www.diybookscanner.org/ http://www.diybookscanner.org/