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Buy DBT used, probably from Amazon.
Chop spine off book at work. (We have a print center.)
Scan book; run tiffs through deskew program; throw into FineReader to auto-OCR.
Call that half an hour. Could be an hour if the pages are being troublesome. The auto-OCR might take a while, but I won't be watching it for that.
Export as RTF (yeah, without correction, which means it's gonna have a lot of OCR errors)
Open in Word, strip out section breaks/page breaks; look for obvious chapter heading formatting & add page break before those.
Fix font & paragraph formatting: make all 100% size, not condensed or expanded; make all single-spaced paragraphs; indent by .25"; increase font size until main body text is at least 14 pt.
That's maybe 10 minutes of work.
Add title & author doc info; save onto Sony Reader as RTF.
Read ebook.
If I really like it and intended to read it again, go back to FineReader & correct the OCR; re-export corrected version; do real formatting instead of quick-and-dirty conversion.
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