Is manual page capture the real bottleneck in scanning owned physical books?

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For people who have scanned personally owned or public-domain books: where does the workflow usually become impractical?

I’m especially curious about the capture stage before OCR/export:
- turning pages one by one
- keeping the book flat without damaging the binding
- avoiding gutter shadows/distortion
- checking page order
- avoiding skipped or double-captured pages
- simply spending too much time per book

Do you find that manual capture is the part that prevents you from scanning more books, or do the harder problems come later in OCR, cleanup, EPUB/PDF output, or Calibre/device management?