I was in the Library yesterday, doing some much-needed quiet work, and before I knew it I had taken out a 33-page book on drug use in Britain. It was mostly reports and from 1979, so quite rare. It's for my Dissertation.
Getting home I decided that instead of copying out every damn page and taking up space in my Pukka Pad, I'd scan it. The whole process was a lot easier than I thought, but I just need to work on size, as the finished PDF file was the same as all the images scanned (nearing 48MB).
Anyone else do this? I would have rather cut the spine and done it in an automated way, but after rotating, cropping and putting them into a PDF with the freeware "PDF Creator", I was pleasantly surprised. Felt a bit of a pirate
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To do it with any speed you need to splice the spine and put the individual pages into a feeder in one of those networked xeroxes. It's how most books are pirated.