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I use a COME paper cutter (19" - $300 ebay) and try to avoid cutting staples in the books. I have a sort of spendy scanner, a canon dr 9080c ($3000 used, ebay) and have learned to scan sideways so that the cut end feeds last, that way the pages all look good. I use ABBYY 11 ($189) to turn every other page and it all looks pretty nifty. Putting it into epub is not easy. Technically, you need to touch every page. Forgetaboutit if you are scanning textbooks, scanning software isn't smart enough to know where side boxes and images are and what order to splice text together. But regular paperbacks are easy enough (with some errors depending on font and print quality). It can take a few hours to compare the scanned version of a book to the OCR'd version in order to do proofing on a simple paperback. It can take up to 20 hours to do a textbook.
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