Here's an interesting open source hardware/software project that enables digitizing books cheaply, at 600-900 pages an hour.
From
http://bkrpr.org/
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Bkrpr is a set of free software and hardware that helps you digitize books. Some of our hardware designs make it easy to photograph all the pages in a book without harming the book. Other designs allow you to remove the binding so the pages can be dropped into a sheet-fed scanner. Whichever method you use, the resulting images can be processed with our software to make user-friendly files in a variety of formats.
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