Amara Graps wrote:
>
> Spike Jones writes:
> > You and all of us. I have over a thousand titles, most of em
> > hardback. Ideally I would like to ASCII all the text without
> > destroying the books, if possible. Let me know if you find
>
> "without destroying the books"
>
> If you succeed in this effort, would you still keep the books?
Cutting the binding off , scanning, then rebinding is not a difficult process,
and would likely be cheaper than building or buying some page turning machine.
If you guys want to put this together as a project, I'll check on the price for
this scanner I was talking about. Its been sitting here unused for a couple
years, so I think I could get a decent price for it.
Mike
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