I was at a conference last Friday where Dan Reetz demoed his open- 
source homemade book scanner. Code4Libbers who are involved with low- 
budget scanning projects may want to check it out:

http://www.diybookscanner.org/  (website for Dan's DIY book scanner)
http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-High-Speed-Book-Scanner-from-Trash-and-Cheap-C/ 
  (Instructions for making the scanner)
http://www.diybookscanner.org/news/?p=17 (more pictures)
http://www.diybookscanner.org/forum/ (the DIY scanner community forum)

Blog posts:
Harry Lewis:  http://www.bitsbook.com/2009/10/do-it-yourself-book-scanning/
Robin Sloan:  http://www.themillions.com/2009/10/bringing-book-scanning-home.html
Me:  http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2009/10/revolution-will-be-digitized-by-cheap.html



Eric Hellman
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