[bksvol-discuss] Re: Scannin g
- From: "Jake Brownell" <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 15:45:33 -0500
Patti,
The BookShare offices and a few lucky volunteers like Kaitlyn use ADFs,
auto document feeders to scan books. the downside to that is that you have to
remove the binding of a book to use them.
Yes those of us who use general traditional flatbed scanners have to hold
the book flat against the scanner class and turn the pages in between scans. I
have only had a few hard backs where it wasn't necessary to constantly apply
pressure. The book has to have a loose binding and pages that aren't too
tightly bound together.
Hopefully I'll find more that don't require a constant hand on them, but I
doubt it. In any case you have to be ready to turn pages, so holding it down
isn't that bad. Although some paperbacks can be quite annoying, that is, trying
to hold them flat enough so words close to the binding scan well.
HTH,
Jake
----- Original Message -----
From: Patti Johnson
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 3:33 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Scannin g
I was asking the gentleman at FS today if he scanned books and he said no.
He said what he knew about that was that most paperbacks have cheap paper for
pages, and the fact you have to hold the binding down to get a good scan, so he
had never tried scanning a book but said he thought he might try it. How many
of you hold the binding down while scanning? Seems to me if you are going to
do that then you have to sit at the computer/scanner the whole time the book is
scanning, whether you do it in segments but still, that sounds like a lot of
effort, and wondered if that is what you all do. I also wonder if hardback
books are easier, if you have to hold that binding down as often on a hardback
book. The gentleman at FS said that was one of the things he really had liked
about the reading edge, that all that effort wasn't necessary because of how
you had the book positioned on the scanner, and the fact you could put it in a
farther back position, however he said it. Anyway, just curious,
Patti
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