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macminer · 12-14-2009, 07:59 AM

I am just thinking of "digitising" part of my library, which is something very close to "canibalising" it. The books will get cut into single pages and be fed into a scanner with an ADF. Space is really at premium at my home, so the reason is not so much my preference for e-books generally as the simple fact that e-books take less space.

However, I am only going to do this to paperbacks, mostly novels and textbooks. A large part of my library is reference works, atlases etc. Before I can get an e-reader with a screen the size of an open atlas (or paper encyclopaedia) there's no way I could dispose of paper reference books or refrain from buying them.

So, while I have bought some ebooks that stopped me from buying hardcovers (mostly language dictionaries), I still consider many hardcovers indispensable and will certainly continue to buy them.

12-14-2009, 07:59 AM	#34
macminer Connoisseur Posts: 98 Karma: 660420 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Poland Device: Boox Nova 3, Lenovo Tab 4 8" (formerly many others)	I am just thinking of "digitising" part of my library, which is something very close to "canibalising" it. The books will get cut into single pages and be fed into a scanner with an ADF. Space is really at premium at my home, so the reason is not so much my preference for e-books generally as the simple fact that e-books take less space. However, I am only going to do this to paperbacks, mostly novels and textbooks. A large part of my library is reference works, atlases etc. Before I can get an e-reader with a screen the size of an open atlas (or paper encyclopaedia) there's no way I could dispose of paper reference books or refrain from buying them. So, while I have bought some ebooks that stopped me from buying hardcovers (mostly language dictionaries), I still consider many hardcovers indispensable and will certainly continue to buy them.