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Unless you can cut apart the books (which you can't if getting them from the library), and scan the pages with a fast ADF (Automatic Document Feed) scanner, you will spend quite a bit of time just scanning the books. The big bugaboo, however, is what to do with the scans.
If you have a way of reading the scans full sized (for example, a large reader or a large screen laptop or desktop computer), you could skip OCR and just keep the scans as an image only PDF (you can use OCR to make them searchable). With most e-book readers, however, the pages will be too small to read easily unless you read from a window in landscape. OCR will be needed to convert your scans to reflowable text that can be enlarged at will and that will require a huge amount of time to edit the scanning errors. Images often do not translate well to an e-book format and may wind up too small to read. Charts will get corrupted unless treated like images (more work to do).
This doesn't mean it can't be done but present e-reader technology makes it impractical to do for an e-reader without compromises you may be unable to accept. I would suggest full page scans put into a searchable image only PDF (Adobe Acrobat Standard would be best suited for this) and read them using a laptop or desktop computer screen and a standard PDF viewer (such as Acrobat Reader, Foxit Reader, etc.). You might get away with a large tablet.
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