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Originally Posted by MJK2111
Elfwreck,
Out of curiosity, did you have to 'dismantle' the physical book to scan it, or is the process akin to copying facing book pages on a regular copy machine?
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I dismantle. I chop the spines off with a huge papercutter that frankly terrifies me. I prefer feeding the pages into the scanner because
I am lazy like that it's faster and doesn't wind up with warped text near the center margins.
But there are people who scan them without breaking the original, either by pressing them flat to a copier/scanner, or using the
diybookscanner arrangement. (I had the advantage of several years at a job where we were hired to chop & scan books & magazines; I got over my aversions to damaging perfectly good books.)
I still keep them, rubberbanded with the spines, and have considered using plastic comb binding to reassemble them into usable books.