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Size is one reason for OCRing your books. Reflowable text is another reason. If you in the future decide to read on a smaller screen, reflowing the text to shorter lines or bigger fonts could be helpful.

I was once in the same situation, and I scanned my books to jpeg images and generated a cbz-file of the. The method is quite simple: add your files to a zip- or .rar archive, thus compressing them to smaller size and only get one file pr. book. Rename .zip to .cbz. If you compressed to .rar, rename the ending to .cbr. Now you can read them using a Comic Book Reader program.

Of course it is also possible to Read your image files in an image viewer or something. It is also possible to convert to .pdf and read it there. Pdf files need some computing to prosess/load, and big PDFs are difficult to handle on mobile platforms, but perhaps it could be an option on a netbook?

If the need for OCRing arises in the future, it is possible to use the images as input to an OCR-program and get reflowable text out of it. Whether this is necessary as of today or if reading from images is "good enough" depends on your screen size, storage on your netbook and of course on your reading preferances, and only you can answer those questions.