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Charles Gray · 06-14-2006, 10:58 PM

I have many, MANY books-- some of them are out of copyright, and for others I was able to get permission to ebook them so long as it isn't distriubted and the original copy is destroyed.
But that leaves the question of how do I do it? Flatbed scanners seem desructive and although I have a very good OCR program (Abby fine reader), the "lift" in the spine seems to cause problems. That's not a problme for the "Scan and destroy" books, but my out of copyright pulps from the 1920's are a different matter. (and rather important, as I'd like to read them, but too much reading will also destroy them). I didn't see any other place here to ask this question, so I was wondering if I could recieve any help.

06-14-2006, 10:58 PM	#1
Charles Gray Member Posts: 10 Karma: 30 Join Date: Jan 2006	Scanning paper (out of copyright) books. I have many, MANY books-- some of them are out of copyright, and for others I was able to get permission to ebook them so long as it isn't distriubted and the original copy is destroyed. But that leaves the question of how do I do it? Flatbed scanners seem desructive and although I have a very good OCR program (Abby fine reader), the "lift" in the spine seems to cause problems. That's not a problme for the "Scan and destroy" books, but my out of copyright pulps from the 1920's are a different matter. (and rather important, as I'd like to read them, but too much reading will also destroy them). I didn't see any other place here to ask this question, so I was wondering if I could recieve any help.