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From: desnoyer@Apple.COM (Peter Desnoyers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Hundreds of books on an optical disk
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Date: 4 Nov 88 21:56:27 GMT
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>In article <5790@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>> So it would
>>take 6710 hours or about three and a third work years to scan in 671
>>books.  And I think my two minutes a page estimate may be optimistic,
>>not to mention extra costs for indexing and mastering.

Unbind the book, first, then put it through a sheet feeder. I'm sure
there's a high-tech way to unbind a book, but zipping the binding off
on a good circular saw works fine. (I've seen it done to Inside Mac,
to loose-leaf bind it.) Should be ~5min per book, plus <5 sec. per page
for per-sheet paper handling. (Use the guts of a good copy machine.)

				Peter Desnoyers