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Originally Posted by moz
One of the things I hope to do over the next while is scan and OCR my collection of magazines especially, but also many of my favourite non-fiction books. It just seems wrong to me that I can't buy computer-related books in electronic format,
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This depends upon the book, and is changing over time due to costs. When was the last time you got an actual printed manual with software, for example?
And a fair number of computer texts are coming with CD ROMs which may include the text of the book as well as code or software referenced in the text. Plucker quite happily scarfed up O'Reilly's Java in a Nutshell CD and produced a version readable on my Palm OS device, but O'Reilly generally has had a clue about this.
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but I'm also looking forward to being able to search and re-read many of the gender studies, sociology and philosophy books that I just can't bring myself to lug about for the time it takes to read them. But for now I fear that the cost of the reader is the smallest part of the cost of owning the ebook ... I just ordered an A3 scanner for the magazine collection 
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Got spare time? I admire your impulse, but I suspect the time editing and proofing the OCRed scans may prove prohibitive.
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Dennis