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Little children wearing Mickey Mouse hats—those black hats with the ears—kept running up and bumping against us as the cameras whirred away, and Elizabeth asked unexpected questions. And then 1:17: I am Ubik. How to Create a Steampunk Style Illustration in Photoshop - Psdt. The Django Book: Version 1.0 (English) Issuu - You Publish. Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights. DIY High-Speed Book Scanner from Trash and Cheap Cameras. I love books. There is some truly fantastic knowledge and information hidden out there in hard to find, rare, and not commercially viable books. I find that I want my books with me everywhere. But that's where the problems begin. Buying, moving, storing, and preserving books means environmental costs... and when I loan a book to a friend, I no longer have access to it.
Digital books change the landscape . After suffering through scanning many of my old, rare, and government issue books, I decided to create a book scanner that anybody could make, for around $300. And that's what this instructable is all about. UPDATE: We've outgrown the Instructables commenting system. UPDATE: If you're actually planning to build one of these things, you really should visit DIYBookScanner.org. I've built two of these things now, and this instructable covers the best parts of both of them. Download a sample here.Download the entire book (115mb) here.