A graduate student with ingenuity, time and an idea has made his own Do-it-yourself book scanner, and after the fact, made available his 79-step process so anyone can join in.
He doesn’t make it sound too hard, either.
“The hardware is ridiculously simple as long as you are not demanding archival quality,” he says. “A dumpster full of building materials, really cheap cameras and outrageous textbook prices was all I needed to do it.”
The contraption is capable of scanning a 400-page book in about 20 minutes, though it requires manual turning of pages.
Kudos to him for creativity, but he could have saved a lot of time and sweat if he’d known how cheap the textbooks on AbeBooks.com are!