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 President, Gluejar, Inc. 41 Watchung Plaza, #132 Montclair, NJ 07042 USA eric_at_hellman.net http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/Received on Tue Oct 13 2009 - 19:03:21 EDT