[Commons-l] ION releases a book scanner

[David Gerard]

Latest in ION's line of cheap'n'cheerful digitisation devices. Derrick
Coetzee posted the YouTube video to G+:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=annCmIa-a08

Looks like a hideous pain in the backside (or the forearms) to me, but
I can see people bothering in some cases. It looks like the simplest
possible textbook-bootlegging machine, for example. Not sure I'd feel
so safe putting anything pre-1923 through it, or even fragile
paperbacks from the 1960s ...


- d.