Digitizing Books
Kamran
linuxdarkstar-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Wed Jul 9 21:14:21 UTC 2008
JoeHill wrote:
> Kamran wrote:
>
>> I have a modest collection of books I want to scan into pdfs. Can
>> anyone recommend a company that does this? Approximately how much did
>> it cost you per book? I am interested to hear about companies that
>> leave the books intact and those that destroy the bindings of the books.
>
> That's what I do every night. :-)
>
> I'm not sure whether we would do just any book, but everything we scan ends up
> on archive.org.
>
> We do not destroy the bindings, unless we're feeling angry and the book is not
> cooperating (just kidding, but some books break as soon as I open them) ;)
>
> This is how we do it:
>
> http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/multimedia/2008/03/gallery_internet_archive
>
> I will ask tonight what the criteria are and so on for collections that we can
> scan and get back with more tonight if you are interested.
>
> Are the books 'yours'? ie., this collection of books is not under someone elses
> copyright and such like?
>
The books are under copyright. I want this done for personal use.
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