OK, I just ripped "Pushing Ice" by Alistair Reynolds, and it took ~40 minutes to take 237 page photographs, then about 100 minutes to proof-read the result. I expect to do more proofing as I read it, but that's about 140 minutes for 280 pages, or 2 pages a minute (with two pages per image). I was running Finereader while taking photos, so I could start proofreading almost immediately after I finished taking photos.
New conclusion: a book stand and two cameras might work better, but one camera with a flat sheet of glass does actually work. Lighting seems to be more important than utter flatness.
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