It all depends on how tightly bound the spine is. Loose spines make the book easy to place against the edge while tightly-bound spines can make it nearly impossible, though with the 3600's design, if you can open the book maybe a tad wider than 90 degrees, it should fit.
It also depends on how wide the margin is. You can still grab a page of text if the marge is wide enough even if the spine is tight.
I usually scan with the lid up (but not off) since once I've defined the page size in the software, only the book page gets scanned anyway. The only time I take the cover off is when I have a very large book, which doesn't happen very often.
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