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Having digital copies of my books sounds great, but as a college student I'd like to sell some of my books back at the end of the semester. I'm not sure how interested the book store would be in gorilla-glued spines.

I was recently reading a very detailed instructable [1] that describes a system to scan books without cutting the spines for ~$300. I'm planning on trying it out later this summer.

[1]http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-High-Speed-Book-Scanner-...



Google has a multi-camera method which corrects for page curvature, making it unnecessary to despine/flatten the books. Unfortunately, it's patented...

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/15/1834246




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