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. They even wrote free software to do the image processing! It looks like our two efforts have a lot to offer each other and there is some great interest on both sides in pooling our knowledge to come up with a best of both worlds design, so there should be some great new stuff once the relevant grad schools are done with finals.