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Originally Posted by tcv
I'm curious about this. Is this not a really long and arduous task? I can't imagine taking any book of any appreciable length, chopping it up and scanning it. Doesn't this take you hours? Days? Is the benefit worth that much time?
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From comments others have made, I gather that if you have an autofeeding scanner, then de-binding a book, scanning and OCRing it isn't terribly time consuming.
As for why ... aside from the convenience, there's a lot of "because I can" in there, I expect.
