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Originally Posted by barryem
I once wanted an ebook and after lots of searching I found a site, whose link I've since lost, that was willing to scan it for me and send me the PDF, formatted for the Kindle page size. I bought a paperback and sent it to them and they did return the PDF. It was full of page images, not flowing text, and some pages were just a bit crooked but it was entirely readable.
I wish I could give a link but I remember at the time finding a few such sites so it shouldn't be difficult to find. I don't recall the price either but I think it was about $5. I probably wouldn't have paid too much more than that, not being sure what I'd get back.
I realize I'm not giving any specific help here but it is another avenue to pursue.
By the way the one problem I had with that was that the page was formatted slightly large for the Kindle. I think they missed it by about half an inch. I was still able to read it easily. I could get a full page with smaller margins without having to reduce the text. It was far from perfect but I've gotten much worse from commercial ebooks.
Barry
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I believe the site was/is 1dollarscan. That is a good way to go if you really want an electronic edition. Buy the papercopy, have it mailed to the scanners, they chop and scan and voila, you end up with an ecopy. If you search out 1dollarscan or Onedollarscan, I believe there were some threads that gave a lot of info about the whole process.