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As I pointed out, if you have very many books, it might be cheaper to buy a cutter and do it yourself. I have roughly 1200 books in my collection. At only $1 a cut (a low estimate), that is $1200 to cut them all. More realistically, it would probably cost me from $1800-$2400. I bought a guillotine type cutter for only $183 including shipping. to say it is a piece of junk would be charitable but it does remove the spines even though the resulting page dimensions vary a little bit from the front of the book to the back and the pages don't always stay quite square. That doesn't matter to me since my scanner has a deskewing feature that (usually) corrects any misalignments. I don't mind the uneven margins on the final PDF when reading from my TV screen at home. My e-book reader crops the margins for me. I thought about getting a better cutter but the one I have now is 40 lb. and anything better will weigh almost twice as much. I'm not getting any younger (I'm 61 now) so I don't need anything that heavy to wrestle with!
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