Digitizing Books

JoeHill joehill-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org
Thu Jul 10 15:13:11 UTC 2008


Kamran wrote: 

> 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.

Not sure how that works, but if you e-mail Gabe at the address I sent you
offlist, he should be able to give you a solid answer.

-- 
JoeHill
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Bender: "No, we're not, you little bed-wetter. Oops, I'm sorry." 
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