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Originally Posted by MerLock
I still can't agree with that. I don't know anyone who has scanned an entire book but I know quite a few people who have "ripped" music.
I'm not familiar with scanning a book using new technology but I just assume it takes longer to do than music and that it takes special equipment and might be filled with errors.
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I have half a dozen books I've scanned for personal use, and have professionally scanned hundreds (I work in a copy/print shop).
The technology is still troublesome; it's only "easy" in comparison to how difficult it used to be. And yes, scanned ebooks are prone to errors that are time-consuming to fix. But the technology is changing, and it's very likely that in a few more years, we'll have personal page-feed scanners with good OCR that can churn out HTML files of scanned ebooks in about an hour.
They won't be great, or perfectly accurate--but they'll be readable.
People used to record music from radio stations and make music mixes from those. We're at about that stage of personal ebook production.