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Originally Posted by Kai Winters
If I've already purchased the book and want to scan it for use in a digital reading format for my own use I'll bloody well do it and not give a good g.d damn what anyone or govt. thinks about it.
I'd not do it with a book I don't own as a matter of courtesy to authors everywhere.
I'm seriously considering using "Word" to type some of my favorite books into digital format but so far it is just a consideration. None of these books are available for an ereader and I just don't like to read a "real" book anymore.
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It takes me less then a minute to scan 6 pages (three double pages at 300 dpi grayscale) of an A5 book on my home flat scanner (Cannon 4400F or 9000F) , so about 50 min. for a 300 pages and then about an hour for PC computer to process it automatically in Abbyy Finereader and save it as Pdf exact image with OCR layer in the background.
I can read and annotate/search such A5 pdf easilly on my 6" reader in portraite or landscape mode, as well as A4 pdf on 10" reader or tablet.
Although I can as easily create epub with Abbyy Finereader 11, I prefer exact Pdf image (OCR-ed) instead, because I need 100% accuracy, but for belletristic/fiction epub without additional proofreading should be just fine also.
I have scanned about hundred books in the last five-six years for reading them on e-ink or tablet instead on paper.
About half of those books were bought and an other half borrowed from library or friends.