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Originally Posted by elcreative
The crucial difference, which helps make this device look so attractive, isn't the CCDs, it's the way they're used. Scanners use a different electro-mechanical arrangement to get their images compared to cameras... with this device and price range, it makes the book transfer process far faster, simpler and less damaging to the book... it's even called the "ION Book Saver" The CCDs may be the same technology but the rest isn't...  |
Okay, cool.
Is the difference going to be worth it for most people, though, do you think? It seems like a good curator tool, and definitely good for a Gutenberg-sized project, but is it a mainstream device?
I still think that the same things you can say about scanners, vis a vis their copyright implications, you can say for this, so I don't think it should be a novel problem, legally.