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Ceryta · 04-25-2011, 07:21 PM

Greetings, I am new to your forum. I am looking for new ideas for scanning. I think I have read all the posts about scanning books. I just wanted to see if any body had any different ideas, I could use. I want to scan all my paperback books into ebooks. I currently have about 3,000 books. I love my books but the hassle of trying to find space and keep them dust free is nerve racking. I also am one of those people who likes to reread books over and over. I have read most of my books on average three times. It is getting harder and harder to keep them organize, let a loan find a book when I want to read it again. I brought library software a few years ago and that helps me keep some what organize. Ten years, ago I had about 50 books , but as time went on and my income rose so did my collection. My father passed and I moved with my mother to keep her company and help with expanses. Let me tell you, the worst part of the move was packing and carrying my books. I thought my friends were going beat to death with the books. In my old place , I had a room just for my books but now I have to share my bedroom with them. I put some in a storage unit with some other stuff. So after a couple months of thinking about it , I finally decided to just bite the bullet and just do it. I have about 1,000 ebooks( 150 Kindles and 850 pdf books other places) already and they are so convenient. I read them on my netbook. I thought about getting a ereader, but I don't need any more gadgets and I can use my netbook just fine. I have looked at several methods, and have decided to do the crop and scan way. This is the fastest,easier, and cheapest way for me. I have been to the DIY bookscannner web site several times, but it seems to be to complex for me. Also I don't think those rigs would work too well with small paperback books. At first, it made me sick to think about cutting up a book, but I realize the story is the most important part not the actual book. Also all the books are just paperback books (mystery, romance, science fiction, thrillers,general fiction), not anything valuable. I am also not going to re-buy all my books in ebook form, I could not afford it. So I ordered a Fujitsu Scansnap and a paper trimmer from Amazon. I spent about $300. So it is gonna cost me 10 cents per a book to digitize it. I think that is a pretty good deal. I am going to start my project on Sunday, May 1, 2011. This is going to be my Sunday afternoon project. Sundays are usually my down days anyway. I gonna do as many books as I can every Sunday until I get done. Than I will recycle all my beauties, but not until I save the ebooks on my desktop, laptop, netbook and an external hard drive, you can never be to careful. And yes, I know about the copyright laws and the fact it could be illegal. The fact of the matter is that I don't care. I will never load my ebooks on to the internet to share or share with anybody at all, family or friend. They are for my own personal convenient use. My netbook is small and light. It is easy to carry around the house, sit on the deck, take to work for lunch, and go on vacation with. All things I have done in the past. But the thought of have all my books in one easily assessable place, to be able to pull up any book I want to read without having to get my lazy butt up with a few clicks of a button is worth becoming a criminal. So again, I ask does anybody different ideas I could use, before I start my project? Thank you for any help.

04-25-2011, 07:21 PM	#1
Ceryta Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2011 Device: netbook	New to Scanning Books Greetings, I am new to your forum. I am looking for new ideas for scanning. I think I have read all the posts about scanning books. I just wanted to see if any body had any different ideas, I could use. I want to scan all my paperback books into ebooks. I currently have about 3,000 books. I love my books but the hassle of trying to find space and keep them dust free is nerve racking. I also am one of those people who likes to reread books over and over. I have read most of my books on average three times. It is getting harder and harder to keep them organize, let a loan find a book when I want to read it again. I brought library software a few years ago and that helps me keep some what organize. Ten years, ago I had about 50 books , but as time went on and my income rose so did my collection. My father passed and I moved with my mother to keep her company and help with expanses. Let me tell you, the worst part of the move was packing and carrying my books. I thought my friends were going beat to death with the books. In my old place , I had a room just for my books but now I have to share my bedroom with them. I put some in a storage unit with some other stuff. So after a couple months of thinking about it , I finally decided to just bite the bullet and just do it. I have about 1,000 ebooks( 150 Kindles and 850 pdf books other places) already and they are so convenient. I read them on my netbook. I thought about getting a ereader, but I don't need any more gadgets and I can use my netbook just fine. I have looked at several methods, and have decided to do the crop and scan way. This is the fastest,easier, and cheapest way for me. I have been to the DIY bookscannner web site several times, but it seems to be to complex for me. Also I don't think those rigs would work too well with small paperback books. At first, it made me sick to think about cutting up a book, but I realize the story is the most important part not the actual book. Also all the books are just paperback books (mystery, romance, science fiction, thrillers,general fiction), not anything valuable. I am also not going to re-buy all my books in ebook form, I could not afford it. So I ordered a Fujitsu Scansnap and a paper trimmer from Amazon. I spent about $300. So it is gonna cost me 10 cents per a book to digitize it. I think that is a pretty good deal. I am going to start my project on Sunday, May 1, 2011. This is going to be my Sunday afternoon project. Sundays are usually my down days anyway. I gonna do as many books as I can every Sunday until I get done. Than I will recycle all my beauties, but not until I save the ebooks on my desktop, laptop, netbook and an external hard drive, you can never be to careful. And yes, I know about the copyright laws and the fact it could be illegal. The fact of the matter is that I don't care. I will never load my ebooks on to the internet to share or share with anybody at all, family or friend. They are for my own personal convenient use. My netbook is small and light. It is easy to carry around the house, sit on the deck, take to work for lunch, and go on vacation with. All things I have done in the past. But the thought of have all my books in one easily assessable place, to be able to pull up any book I want to read without having to get my lazy butt up with a few clicks of a button is worth becoming a criminal. So again, I ask does anybody different ideas I could use, before I start my project? Thank you for any help.