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Originally Posted by llwwss
As an individual, is it be possible to digitize books into ebook files or should i contact a company which does book digitization?
If i can do this myself, what equipments do i need?
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Forget it.
It's very difficult and time consuming, even if you already have the required equipment and skill in using it. If you don't have the equipment or the skill, it will be close to impossible.
And a company that does this won't help you either. Their first question will be "Do you have the right to do this?". You don't. Someone else holds the rights and would have to approve it. They would be in violation of the law doing it without that approval, and they won't touch the job.
And even if you got the approval, it would be far more expensive than it was worth. I can easily see a charge of
thousands of dollars per book.
If the books you want to read don't exist in electronic format, resign yourself to paper editions. Seriously.
(For an idea of what has to be done to make a paper book into an electronic version, visit the Distributed Proofreader's site, at
http://www.pgdp.net/c/default.php . They do the proofing on the files that become Project Gutenberg titles.)
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Dennis