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Originally Posted by Prospect
If I had the time (and a place to keep the thing) it would have been fun to build my own book scanner, but it would probably cost me more than USD 200 in material.
Only a limited number of books are available as ebooks today. In my country it is less than 1000. Further, books are quite expensive here with the ordinary price for a hardback being the equivalent of USD 60. Ebooks will probably be cheaper, but I do not know how much cheaper.
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Have you gone to instructables.com? They've got several articles on building/assembling your own scanner from 'found' material and a 6-10MP digicam. Here's one:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Quic...With-a-Camera/
It's really cheap when you consider that any middling-small tripod, clear sheet of plexiglas and you've-probably-already-got-it digicam will do.
Derek