First make sure the book is out of copyright, now public domain, as otherwise copying more than few pages is copyright violation. A civil offence in most countries, despite what Google thinks.
I save & edit in ODT. But you need to save as in .docx for best conversion in Calibre. Writer2Epub is a waste of time compared to using Calibre. It's much poorer at converting styles.
Also use LibreOffice, not OpenOffice, it's nearly history.
Proofread, annotate, edit, re-export many times before sharing a PD work.
And no, cheap scanners ARE slow and poor compared with SCSI and Ethernet professional models. If it's not a rare book and it's PD and your own then cut binding using an industrial guillotine. Then use the sheet feeder. Do a typical page to create a profile with suitable gamma, brightness, contrast. Some books need scanned at 600 DPI.
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