^^ what he said
ps. I dig the clothes, makes you look like a modern comic book character.

Do you have a working page-turner? I'd love to scan the rest of my books, but my time makes it expensive.

Even the people with the 50,000 dollar page turning scanners pay people to stand in front of them, to make sure they don't wreck the books. If you're not concerned about destroying the books, you can saw off the spines with a table saw and sheet-feed the scans with something like a Fujitsu ScanSnap.

I don't doubt that your time is valuable, my time is also valuable, which is why the fact that you can get two pages in 2 or 3 seconds with this scanner is an order of magnitude improvement over flatbeds.

What a kind thing to do to spend all this time writing up such an EXCELLENT set of instructions.

Thought you might be interested in the cross-merge process for PDF:
verypdf.com/pdfpg/help/help.html
and
freedownloadscenter.com/Business/Document_Management_Tools/PDF_Page_Organizer.html

Scroll for cross-merge in both links.

Thanks MRW, we could really use such a program... have you ever seen a free alternative??

About how long does it take to build one?

DIY book scanner video introduction = Excellent x Infinity.

In awe of not only this "so timely - so brilliant" an idea, but that you actually did it, and for only a few dollars!! Mad props!! I *have* to make one of these!! This even surpasses the hackintosh!! You cut right through and solved this whole ebook mess! It's now worth it to buy books because you know you can keep them always!! I am WOWed beyond description....

what is the masked book in the video?

It's "A Russian Course" by Alexander Lipson. I just threw some electrical tape over the title to simulate the idea of redaction.

∞∞∞ respectfully attentive to your next endeavor ∞∞∞

This is truly amazing!!!
You rock!!
How much time and money did you spend the scanner in the video?
Props to man in the icecream van =)

Lovely approach a real 'convivial tool' as a professional archivist and librarian for over three decades and having witnessed the anti-digital attitudes on certain archives and libraries at first and the later switch with the big firms coming in with their big talk but often not so good results... I find your machine and the way it is presented refreshing! Will certainly repost your movie on my blog... and for an upcoming conference on memory and the digital... I am very much for a new digital 'common wealth'. By the way wet books need to be deep frozen in say a meat warehouse... and then put in a centrifuge... that does most of the job... keep them wet till you can freeze...

project is started thank you for figuring this one out.