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Done it, will do it again. ONLY for books that are not available and not likely to be available any time soon as ebook. Some aren't easily available in paper either. Mostly some nostalgia type books from my childhood.
So far no need to destroy any books, I use a portable VuPoint Magic Wand scanner, which, as long as the books you are scanning have enough margin (and most of what I scan does), works quite well. Scanning a book takes around an hour. That's the fast part. Organizing the images, renaming, doing the OCR, creating clean HTML, putting that into epub form and proofreading is what takes the time.
I find it satisfying and it's something I so in my spare time. Waiting on a long download... I proofread a chapter. Watching TV, scan a book. It's still slow though. But the end result is nice. And as I'm a re-reader, each book I do I'll get more enjoyment out of later down the line.
Sooner or later, I probably will cut up a book in order to scan it, just haven't gotten there yet.
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