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Elfwreck · 06-30-2011, 02:11 AM

I've converted 7 books that I had to chop the spines off, 8 more that I scanned flatbed because I didn't want to damage the originals, and have 3 or 4 more chopped in process. (And those are the ones I've chopped myself for my own conversions. I've also done conversions from Archive.org scans and zines that other people have scanned & wanted OCR'd versions of.)

The ones I've finished fall into two categories: out-of-print RPG gaming materials, and Pagan religious studies. There aren't going to be commercially-released ebook versions of either.

Having a job where we chopped & scanned hundreds of books helped get me over the idea that books had tremendous value in their physical form. (Nothing like chopping & scanning 7 volumes of the History of Freemasonry to get past the notion of books as Artifacts Of Lore and think of them as Nuisances Of Page-Jamming And Who The Hell Decided To Print The Photo Credits On Tissue Paper Anyway?) Of the 10 or so I've chopped, I've kept the originals, and am considering rebinding them with a comb binding; I'd lose the outside spine but keep them as usable paper books.

I use FineReader Pro, and am considering forking out the $$$ for the upgrade to 10.

06-30-2011, 02:11 AM	#11
Elfwreck Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,187 Karma: 25133758 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: SF Bay Area, California, USA Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3 (Past: Kobo Mini, PEZ, PRS-505, Clié)	I've converted 7 books that I had to chop the spines off, 8 more that I scanned flatbed because I didn't want to damage the originals, and have 3 or 4 more chopped in process. (And those are the ones I've chopped myself for my own conversions. I've also done conversions from Archive.org scans and zines that other people have scanned & wanted OCR'd versions of.) The ones I've finished fall into two categories: out-of-print RPG gaming materials, and Pagan religious studies. There aren't going to be commercially-released ebook versions of either. Having a job where we chopped & scanned hundreds of books helped get me over the idea that books had tremendous value in their physical form. (Nothing like chopping & scanning 7 volumes of the History of Freemasonry to get past the notion of books as Artifacts Of Lore and think of them as Nuisances Of Page-Jamming And Who The Hell Decided To Print The Photo Credits On Tissue Paper Anyway?) Of the 10 or so I've chopped, I've kept the originals, and am considering rebinding them with a comb binding; I'd lose the outside spine but keep them as usable paper books. I use FineReader Pro, and am considering forking out the $$$ for the upgrade to 10.