{"id":434,"date":"2011-03-03T23:42:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T23:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2011\/03\/diy-book-scanning.html"},"modified":"2011-03-03T23:42:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T23:42:06","slug":"diy-book-scanning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2011\/03\/diy-book-scanning.html","title":{"rendered":"DIY Book Scanning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: right;\" href=\"http:\/\/krisdedecker.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e0099229e88833014e8678df72970d-pi\"><img class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00e0099229e88833014e8678df72970d\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Diy book scanner\" src=\"http:\/\/krisdedecker.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e0099229e88833014e8678df72970d-320wi\" alt=\"Diy book scanner\" \/><\/a> &#8220;Do-It-Yourself Book Scanning is using cheap, compact cameras and free software to scan books quickly and efficiently. DIY Book Scanners can be as simple as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Bargain-Price-Book-Scanner-From-A-Cardboard-Box\/\">camera and a piece of glass<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/diybookscanner.org\/PDF\/Bargain-Price-Book-Scanner-From-A-Cardboard-Box.pdf\">PDF<\/a>] or as involved as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/DIY-High-Speed-Book-Scanner-from-Trash-and-Cheap-C\/\">Instructable that brought our community together<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/diybookscanner.org\/PDF\/DIY-High-Speed-Book-Scanner-from-Trash-and-Cheap-C.pdf\">PDF<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/4219953\">Vimeo<\/a>]. We&#8217;ve come a long way since then. We have GPL-licensed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diybookscanner.org\/news\/?p=66\">laser cut designs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/diybookscanner.org\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=1&amp;t=495\">aluminum designs<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diybookscanner.org\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=1&amp;t=333\">detailed instructions for beginners<\/a>. We have built hundreds of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diybookscanner.org\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=4&amp;t=375\">scanners<\/a> and freely shared <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diybookscanner.org\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=1&amp;t=280\">thousands of design improvements<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diybookscanner.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">DIY Book Scanning Community<\/a>, a group of  over 300 DIY&#8217;ers who believe that the future of digital books is <a href=\"http:\/\/onthecommons.org\/content.php?id=2629\">too important to be  decided solely by corporate interests<\/a>. Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2009\/05\/bookbinding-a-tutorial.html\" target=\"_self\">DIY Book Binding<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2009\/03\/kite-aerial-photography.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kite Aerial Photography<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Do-It-Yourself Book Scanning is using cheap, compact cameras and free software to scan books quickly and efficiently. DIY Book Scanners can be as simple as a camera and a piece of glass [PDF] or as involved as the Instructable that brought our community together [PDF \/ Vimeo]. We&#8217;ve come a long way since then. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,12,204],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}