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FWIW I recently purchased a Canon P150 scanner - very small footprint, duplex sheet feeder scanner. And I'm absolutely delighted with it. It accepts up to 20 sheets at a time, but to play safe, I load it with 10 sheets and then just leave it to rip. Compared with the dubious entertainment of manually feeding a flat-bed scanner there's no contest. I love it!
The production chain now is:
Steel rule & sharp knife to disassemble old paperback;
Break book into bundles of 10 sheets;
Scan bundles to tiff files;
Run tiff files through Abbyy scan to Office;
Perform elementary spell check in Word, export as .txt;
Spend lots of time beating the text into acceptable html shape in editor of your choice (I use NoteTab Light 'cos it's free & I'm stingy);
(Three loud cheers) Perform 'nice' formatting of text in Sigil;
Add book to library and to reader in Calibre;
Enjoy.
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