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A commercial print/copy shop with a heavy duty guillotine would be the best option but if you have very many books, this could wind up being very expensive. Smaller guillotines that can handle up to 1 1/2" can be had from roughly $200 up.
Saws of any kind (besides the risk of loosing body parts) are unsuitable for cutting the spines from books since the teeth of the blade will leave a friable edge that will shed dust that cannot be cleaned from the book no matter how hard you try (I learned this the fun way). This dust can easily ruin a scanner or copier. Even a sharp (very sharp) knife and straight edge, slow as the process would be, would give you better results than any kind of saw blade.
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