After many months of design and iterative prototyping and at the cost of a small amount of spilled blood, we are happy to announce that we have a final design for the Book Liberator. Take a look: This overall design is not much different from our early builds, but it includes many small [...]
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Book Liberator in Forbes
Ian and I demoed our design-complete prototype for Forbes, and they did a good writeup on the device. This will help get the word out. Tell your friends, warn your enemies: Book Liberator is coming, and it will scan your books!
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Book Liberator at HOPE
Book Liberator cadged some table space at HOPE from our sponsor, Question Copyright. We met lots and lots of awesome hackers, and discovered they all love the Book Liberator. We started a lot of good and useful conversations this weekend about everything from manufacturing to remote shutter trigger to lighting options. We’ll be in touch [...]
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Book Liberator in the News
The Book Liberator got a writeup in Good magazine! I sent in hundreds of rambling words about the project, and Theo distilled them into a few pithy quotes. Thanks, Theo, for making me seem clever!
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Prototypes ahoy!
Last week, Ian and Winnie got all heroic with some tools, wood and plexi. The result is a couple sweet prototypes, which we’ll be sending to the Decapod folks so they can hack software to process BookLib images. In other news, I put a prototype design of the camera mount on thingiverse. Ian’s original washer-and-bolt [...]
6 Ways to Save Publishing
Michael Tamblyn, the CEO of BookNet Canada, presents 6 ways technology can improve the world of paper book publishing. For me, the most interesting tidbit in that video is that 99.5% of Canadian book sales are paper books (I suppose this is as opposed to digital or audio books). And if you’re interested in how [...]
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The Future of Books
Why destroy your books just to scan them when there are so many more interesting ways to destroy them?
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Test Images
If you’re interested in seeing what the software can do, there’s no need to actually build a rig. Grab version 0.1.82 and the test images and get to work!
We Are Not Alone
Sometimes it’s good to be reminded that we’re not the only ones working in this area. From the NYTimes: The Long Now Foundation is developing a software tool to easily convert documents between digital formats, said Stewart Brand, a co-founder of the project.
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Hello World
Bkrpr now has a blog. It also has a wiki and a Launchpad account. Oh, and a Flickr and a Youtube.
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