Google has spent years scanning books, recreating the world's leading libraries as digital files we can read and search on PCs and smartphones. The project has faced a fair amount of opposition -- ...

If digitizing a historic collection of books is important to you or your local historical society or library you can purchase a commercial book scanner for around a hundred thousand dollars or make ...

There seems to be a lot of lessons wrapped up in this story. One, never under estimate the things you can create with a vacuum cleaner. Two, there are benefits to giving employees personal time. And ...

Accessing a plethora of information through portable devices is something much more practically beneficial than carrying books and documents around! Where books and documents give you excess weight ...

Google wants more and more people to scan and digitize books. According to Hack A Day, Google has released plans for a do-it-yourself book scanner. It uses two image sensors taken from a desktop ...

Scanners for loose papers have become so commonplace that almost every printer includes one, but book scanners have remained frustratingly rare for non-librarians and archivists. [Brad Mattson] had ...

I have to admit that while this looks interesting, and I do love ebooks (I love my physical books as well), the very thought of converting my library makes me cringe. All said (novels, reference, ...