[Ripplinger]

If it was really my favorite author, I'd bite the bullet and buy the Kindle version for $7.99. I usually have most paperbacks of my favorite author though, which means I could scan it for myself, but the time involved to make a clean copy is worth the $8.

Of course I've bought quite a few older books like that thinking I'd save the time, and the quality is as if someone just scanned, ran a quick OCR, did no proofing and didn't bother with cleaning up any formatting, and considered that to be retail quality. So I still end up doing heavy editing, but at least it saved me the scanning time.