Company Scans Your Books For a Dollar – Ship ‘Em In, Get a PDF via Email
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Company Scans Your Books For a Dollar – Ship ‘Em In, Get a PDF via Email
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Re: Company Scans Your Books For a Dollar – Ship ‘Em In, Get a PDF via Email
#2Article doesn't mention a big audience that would be very interested in cheap book scanning: the print disabled. Blind and partially-sighted people are the most obvious members of this group but dyslexics and others who cannot read normal print would also benefit. Many books are of course already available through libraries for the blind but if you need less-popular or specialised texts you are out of luck.
With an aging population it seems this is a very natural niche.
Now if it were only OnePoundScan instead of OneDollarScan...
Re: Company Scans Your Books For a Dollar – Ship ‘Em In, Get a PDF via Email
#3Would something similar make sense for say music cd's, dvd's etc? I for one would love to send someone my media collection, and have it ripped into lossless format and put on cloud. In order to get around piracy issues etc maybe the entire collection can be digitally signed by my public key...
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#5 Book scanning is actually a great tool for University students. I know that a lot of the actual University libraries are trying to go digital, but in the mean time being able to quickly find specific passages by utilizing the find function makes for a much easier day at the old study hall. This sort of idea could certainly pick up traction around schools for the next few years.
Re: Company Scans Your Books For a Dollar – Ship ‘Em In, Get a PDF via Email
#6Would something similar make sense for say music cd's, dvd's etc? I for one would love to send someone my media collection, and have it ripped into lossless format and put on cloud. In order to get around piracy issues etc maybe the entire collection can be digitally signed by my public key...
cd-to-mp3 services have been around for a long time. i'm sure most of them have lossless encoding as an option.
googling "service to convert cd to mp3" just found a bunch of them.
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#7The video indicated that the binding for the book was being cut off. I suspect that will prevent students from borrowing books from the library, getting them scanned via this service, and returning them.
It is sad that many hundreds of thousands of hours have been wasted by students photocopying books :(
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#8I was all there, until it said 'PDF'. For my purposes I need a more accessible format.
Other than that, I could definitely see this helping with my foreign language studies. Especially Japanese, as the company appears to do a lot of books in that language.
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#9My grandmother, who passed away last week, was an author. She self-published two novels through a printer who typeset her books and printed a few hundred copies. I don't know what happened to the original text files she gave her printer and I know she never got a digital typeset copy.
I've been wanting to re-release her novels as ebooks, but haven't had a way to digitize them. This is perfect for me.
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#10Article doesn't mention a big audience that would be very interested in cheap book scanning: the print disabled. Blind and partially-sighted people are the most obvious members of this group but dyslexics and others who cannot read normal print would also benefit. Many books are of course already available through libraries for the blind but if you need less-popular or specialised texts you are out of luck. With an a…
I think this is one of the hidden benefits of going digital with books. The selection of large print books is very weak, but with a kindle (or similar) suddenly every book is a large print book and many can be played as automated audio books as well.