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Paul Moews · 07-24-2006, 12:51 PM

I have ordered an Iiad and am anxious to use it on books that I have recently scanned to pdf's. At the risk of being disappointed before I even get the Iliad perhaps others will try to display scanned books that might be readable and post comments here.

What excited me about the display is its size - 13 x 15 cm. Many out of copyright books of the late 19th and early 20th century, meant to be portable, were about 10 x 15 cm (ca 4 x 6 inches) and had fonts of a reasonable size. From what I've read these small books should display well.

Over the last few months I've scanned several hundred books and find that a black and white book - no grayscale required - can be converted to a pdf in about an hour - see below.

Some of these books can be found at http://djm.cc/dmoews.html (scroll to bottom of page) Two that might be readable on the Iliad are a book of charades by Bellamy –

http://djm.cc/library/A_Third_Centur...amy_edited.pdf
- page size 9.1 x 14.1 cm

and a temperance tract by Bruce Edwards –

http://djm.cc/library/Rachel_Nobles_...rds_edited.pdf
- page size 4 x 6 inches.

I was surprised at how fast a book can be scanned - of course it is necessary to unbind the book.

A. tear the book block from the binding
B. clear the adhesive off the back with a hobby knife and separate into signatures
C. Use an ordinary paper cutter to cut the folds off the signatures
D. Scan into a pdf - I use a Fujitsu Scan Snap - a neat little scanner that comes with Adobe Acrobat 7 and automatically deskews the pages.

07-24-2006, 12:51 PM	#1
Paul Moews Enthusiast Posts: 32 Karma: 12 Join Date: Jul 2006	Small scanned books I have ordered an Iiad and am anxious to use it on books that I have recently scanned to pdf's. At the risk of being disappointed before I even get the Iliad perhaps others will try to display scanned books that might be readable and post comments here. What excited me about the display is its size - 13 x 15 cm. Many out of copyright books of the late 19th and early 20th century, meant to be portable, were about 10 x 15 cm (ca 4 x 6 inches) and had fonts of a reasonable size. From what I've read these small books should display well. Over the last few months I've scanned several hundred books and find that a black and white book - no grayscale required - can be converted to a pdf in about an hour - see below. Some of these books can be found at http://djm.cc/dmoews.html (scroll to bottom of page) Two that might be readable on the Iliad are a book of charades by Bellamy – http://djm.cc/library/A_Third_Centur...amy_edited.pdf - page size 9.1 x 14.1 cm and a temperance tract by Bruce Edwards – http://djm.cc/library/Rachel_Nobles_...rds_edited.pdf - page size 4 x 6 inches. I was surprised at how fast a book can be scanned - of course it is necessary to unbind the book. A. tear the book block from the binding B. clear the adhesive off the back with a hobby knife and separate into signatures C. Use an ordinary paper cutter to cut the folds off the signatures D. Scan into a pdf - I use a Fujitsu Scan Snap - a neat little scanner that comes with Adobe Acrobat 7 and automatically deskews the pages.