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Soul Reaver
Mar 8, 2009

in retrospect the old redtext was a little over the top, I think I was in a bad mood that day. it appears you've learned your lesson about slagging our gods and masters at beamdog but I'm still going to leave this av up because i think its funny

god bless
I have a collection of old, somewhat tatty, but rather collectible paperback books.
I also have a nerdy compulsion to digitize this stuff so I don't have to damage my precious books by actually, you know, touching them when I want to read them.

What kind of scanner would you recommend I could use to digitize these?

Things that I care about:
- Safety of the book. Flatbed scanners mean I have to squash the book to get a good scan, which I want to avoid. I'm thinking maybe some sort of handheld scanner?
- Cost. I think there are awesome triangular book scanners out there but they cost a fortune(?)
- Speed. There are a lot of pages to get through, so I don't want to have to spend 30 seconds on each one. This extends to the ease of saving the scan afterwards without a ton of picture editing.
- Quality of scan needs to be decent but not outrageous

Things I don't really care about:
- Wireless. I don't care either way if it's wireless or wired, I just don't want to pay extra for wireless functionality. Generally I actually prefer wired since it won't run out of battery/charge.
- OCR. Not sure if this is even a thing, but I actually want the scans to look exactly like the book, not to be converted to a machine-readable format or something.

I've got no experience with this, so does anyone have any suggestons for what hardware would be best for this?

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