We’ve talked about other efforts to digitize books before but now things are getting a lot closer to home. Yesterday, a group of three grad students posted an instructable on how to build a book scanning device using a similar V-shaped cradle, the same camera model, and for about the same price as our design. [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2009
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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Grouping
We’ve got a google group! Now that a number of people are in the process of building their own book rippers we need a place where we can pull together the multiple discussions we’ve been having over email and in other forums. The google group should do that very nicely. Come on by. For those [...]
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