Hi folks. So I bought a nice, fast document scanner to digitize my book collection. I only have one NEXT book right now, it's The Complete Guide to the NEXTSTEP™ User Environment by Michael B. Shebanek. I believe it's out of print and has no ebook so it's in my queue to scan.
Two questions.
Are there any books that would be helpful to scan for the community?
What are the collective thoughts on sharing? If the author can make even $1 still selling it I would opt to keep it private in my collection. But how about out of print books, which would be most or all of them by now?
Thanks!
I have scanned all my books, even my old high school books. It's great! you can search since the scan OCRs as well.
I basically destroyed the books in scanning them (slicing the spine to feed the scanner) but I was fine with the electronic copy.
I think you're doing a service by scanning these things. Some go out of print and that bit of history can die, so more copies of some of these things, particularly for private use, seems to be of benefit to everyone.
Of course I'm sure copyright owners will wag their fingers at you and say otherwise, but meh, if there is no money in it for them or the originators of the IP, I doubt anyone really cares.
I bought a ScanSnap SV600 overhead scanner so no need to destroy anything. It does a full page in 3 seconds and can either auto detect when the page turns or in my case I bought a USB foot pedal. Turn page, hit pedal, repeat.
The key is what books do we want scanned, and are there issues sharing those scans with the community? I'm thinking it's OK given the age of the content and low likelihood of anything still being printed and sold.
You, sir, are a far more patient person than myself! I commend you!
I bought a 200ppm super fast scanner and sliced and diced! :D
https://www.scantastik.com/hardware/panasonic-scanners/panasonic-kv-s5076h.htmlBTW this is a really great site if you are looking to do a big scan project and want 'real deal' fast scanners:
https://www.scantastik.com/compare-scanners.php#tabContent3I had a LOT of books and a lot of my old notebooks. I basically got rid of all my paper belongings and scanned it all in. Was worth the physical destruction to me. But I allow that others will definitely disagree with that approach!