I'm much less upset about the destruction of rare (old, out of print, niche) books by megacorps than I am about the fact that those books can't be digitized by libraries for public access or benefit because the former is legal and the latter is not.
@ehashman
Friend of mine built and sold DIW book digitisers a while ago. Dunno if they still do, but the concept was: Canon camera with free firmware, place to place the book, you press a pedal which pushes a piece of glass onto the book to hold the open pages in place and triggers the camera, you release the pedal, flip the page, rinse, repeat.
Allowed you to scan a while book into a PDF in an hour at most.
Absent that, a standard scanner should also work, though be slower?
Friend of mine built and sold DIW book digitisers a while ago. Dunno if they still do, but the concept was: Canon camera with free firmware, place to place the book, you press a pedal which pushes a piece of glass onto the book to hold the open pages in place and triggers the camera, you release the pedal, flip the page, rinse, repeat.
Allowed you to scan a while book into a PDF in an hour at most.
Absent that, a standard scanner should also work, though be slower?
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