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DIY Book Scanner |
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2009 |
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The DIY Book Scanner is an open-source device that allows to scan books without breaking them. It also includes a series of software to clean the pictures and collate them in a single PDF file. In 2009, Daniel Reetz published a tutorial on how to make a book scanner from cheap cameras and trash. His initial tutorial touched off a firestorm of interest and launched this community. In the ensuing years, our community has explored this exciting new realm of preservation at the personal scale. Because of their efforts, book digitization is no longer the sole domain of large institutions and billion dollar companies. In 2015, Daniel retired from the project, but the community lives on. |
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Artist's Statement |
Five years ago we built our first book scanner from salvage and scrap. Book digitization was the domain of giants — Microsoft and Google. Commercial book scanners cost as much as a small car. Unless you chose to destroy your books in sheet-feed or flatbed scanners, there was no safe and affordable way to preserve the contents of your bookshelf on your e-reader. Collectively, we tried to fix that. Over 2,000 people contributed more than 350 designs and thousands of lines of code at diybookscanner.org. |
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“DIY Book Scanners Turn Your Books Into Bytes” by Priya Ganapati, www.wired.com/2009/12/diy-book-scanner, 11/12/2009. |
Keywords |
access, bookness, collaboration, community, control, digital, hybrid, materiality, photography, preservation |
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