On 11 September 2011 09:47, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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.
Eh for where damage isn't an issue there is an automated GPL licensed solution:
http://www.geocities.jp/takascience/lego/fabs_en.html
Not sure I'd feel
so safe putting anything pre-1923 through it, or even fragile
paperbacks from the 1960s ...
Depends what it is. Copies of punch are pretty cheap (particularly if
you are completely unconcerned with quality) to the point where you
can put up with any damage caused by dropping them on a flat bed
scanner:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Punch_sultan_visit_1867reduced.png
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geni
