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Originally Posted by nynaevelan
You will still be able to do this, now you will enter it into the id box with isbn: as a prefix. I know it is an extra step but...
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I'm behind on everything for various reasons I won't bore you with (essentially, life happened) so it will be a while before I can try to figure that out.
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Originally Posted by nynaevelan
...I am curious though, how do you scan in your paperback books, are you scanning them without separating them from their binding or separating them from their binding in order to scan them?? I would love to know because I have alot of older books which I would like in ebook format but I do not think the publisher has any plans to re-release them.
Nyn
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The reason I'm scanning my books is I have a bijillion (ok, at least 1500) books I won't be able to take with me otherwise when I move into a travel trailer. I also do not buy e-books because the ones I want are DRM infested, overpriced (often cost more than paperbooks; besides, used paperbooks are cheaper), or unavailable.
I cut off the spines with a guillotine papercutter (can cut up to 1 1/2") then (for most books) feed the pages through a Fujitsu Scansnap S1500 ADF duplex scanner, scanning directly to PDF. I scan the color covers first, then scan the text in black and white (eliminates faded paper and most speckles, making a page that looks ancient look almost new), then combine the covers and text into a single PDF.
Heavily illustrated books, especially color illustrations, require more work if I want archival quality scans. I use a flat bed scanner and replace the original scanned illustrations with the better one. Fortunately, that is fairly rare.
Comic books are a pain. I scan them to color JPGs, run them through Irfranview to jack up the contrast and reduce brightness, then combine them to PDF. It's more work but the comics usually look better than new.