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Book Scanning Services
By: Neumatic Date: July 9, 2015, 7:24 pm
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So I have a massive book collection... too massive. I'm not the
kind of guy who likes to get rid of anything. But I know that
it's gonna be h*ll for me ot move or anything with all this
junk. So I finally looked up book scanning services (they're
usually in California) so I'm gonna try that... even the
cheapest one I found, at a buck per 100 pages, is still gonna
wind up costing once you factor in shipping and so on. I think
what I'm gonna try and do is get one of those flat-rate boxes,
see how many books I can fit in there at a time, and send that.
I'm gonna send some "don't matter" books at first as a test, but
if it works, I can finally get rid of that massive backlog of
books, comics, magazines, and all that other stuff that's just
weighing me down.
What would be REALLY great is if I can use this service to scan
in all my old college sketchbooks, i have ZERO reason to keep
them around and they weigh a ton. Just getting rid of those
would be a big lifesaver.
I really got to thinking about this while I was finishing up the
Steve Jobs book and with my discussion with Mac about the end of
discs, I feel like we might be reaching the end of the age of
ownership and I think that kinda sucks... I don't want to lease
everything, and have locks put on there by other people that I
can't take off. And I definitely didn't want to re-buy all my
books at full price. The book-scanning services seem like a
good fit, it's all PDF, good quality, no DRM (that's one thing I
will have ot wait and see... I can't imagine that they would put
it on there)... that's what I want. And I don't have the time
or patience to scan all that sh*t in myself or get a book
scanner. Digital stuff like music and movies is easy, analog
conversion is tough. I'm not nuts about outsourcing it, but if
it finally gets rid of this huge pile I've burdened myself with
for so long, it'll be worth it.
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Re: Book Scanning Services
By: Mac Date: July 9, 2015, 9:59 pm
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Whew, that sounds massive in every respect. Time, money,
storage, organization.
It reminds me a little of my home movies. Not my Super 8 my
folks took. The early VHS tapes I took. I never looked at
them... Ever. Yet they sit in boxes in the basement, for 20+
years. I've contiplated over the years to convert them to DVD.
Just because 1) I might think I'll watch them and 2) save them
before they turn to dust.
It's about that time again, I think about that. Probably won't
do it. :-\
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Re: Book Scanning Services
By: Chiprocks1 Date: July 9, 2015, 10:34 pm
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I too have a massive library for DVD's, CD's and Books. But the
approach that I've taken is to sell what I know I'll never touch
again and put them on eBay. They have sold surprisingly well and
at a price above the norm for used items. There are still a
handful that I will keep. But thinning the herd has made things
more manageable for me. Might be something you could do as well
and get some $$$ in the process.
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Re: Book Scanning Services
By: Neumatic Date: July 10, 2015, 1:22 am
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It's real hard for me to thin the herd... I think the scanning
will help with that, since the goal is to clear my shelves... if
I'm not willing to put two bucks into scanning it, not really
worth having around.
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Re: Book Scanning Services
By: Neumatic Date: July 10, 2015, 2:17 pm
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Well, I sent a test package today, nothing I couldn't replace if
I had to, but that I still want... so we'll see how they turn
out. Here's hoping for the best.
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Re: Book Scanning Services
By: Mac Date: July 10, 2015, 3:11 pm
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Yea, let us know how it turns out.
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Re: Book Scanning Services
By: Neumatic Date: July 22, 2015, 8:18 pm
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Well, after a longer wait than I had expected, I got my files
back and they look GREAT. As good as I had hoped.
My test package consisted of a couple comic books (the new JLA
and Archie) as well as two old books I found at the used
bookstore. The comics came out GREAT, and with a cheap PDF
editor I got from the app store I can remove the ads and useless
pages, export them all into images, compress, whatever. I
should also be able to use Prizmo to translate the proper books
into text and create something that I can actually edit and play
around with... they offer to do this for you, but at another
buck per 100 pages... considering the bulk I'm gonna go through,
not worth it.
The only real issue is that they charge you an extra buck to
title your file the name of the book... I'm not biting that, so
instead I'm just titling and sorting them as I download them
(since you can apparently only download one book at a time, this
isn't too big of an issue).
So I'm pretty pleased with the service.
it's called 1dollarscan.com if you're curious and want to give
it a run.
Really the only issue I had was the wait to get these back, but
it'll also keep me from just going nuts and splurging. A
package a month seems about right.
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Re: Book Scanning Services
By: Mac Date: July 23, 2015, 5:38 am
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That's cool things turned out as expected... Or better.
#Post#: 35078--------------------------------------------------
Re: Book Scanning Services
By: Neumatic Date: July 23, 2015, 3:43 pm
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The only thing that would make it better is if it was local so I
don't have to keep mailing sh*t... that's gonna get laborious.
But I filled a box and it made a rather sizable dent in my
archives, I'm happy to say. Combine that with donating the
books I no longer want to the library or a re-sale store...
things are lookin' up (in an ideal world, the resale of what I
don't want would balance out the cost of saving what I do want,
but that's exceedingly unlikely).
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Re: Book Scanning Services
By: Neumatic Date: July 23, 2015, 5:16 pm
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Like a fool, I forgot to take "before" shots of my shelves
before I started doing this. Rectified now but I've already
sent out a sizable package. I intend to make the "after"
pictures as impressive as possible.
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