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		qingcharles on Sept 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linear Book Scanner – Open-source automatic book s... Unless the book is super valuable then it is often easier to just use a guillotine to slice off the binding completely and feed the pages through a sheet-feed scanner.

AlbertCory on Sept 18, 2023 [–]

"easy" is not the goal if there are no other copies, or very few. It doesn't have to be "super valuable" for cutting to be unacceptable.

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