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At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book—one page at a time, by hand.
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this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2024
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Why not run the spine through a table saw and just use a regular document feeder?
I think they actually want to keep the book.
Sometimes books are valuable so cutting them into bits so they can go on the Internets faster isn't feasible.
In 10 years you can just reprint the book by molecule so why bother