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I 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.
It appears that the service returns plain PDF files which are fairly easy to convert into more open formats.
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Not resold as physical books, no...since they cut the spine off the book so that they can scan it. Resold as PDF files? Not by this company, anyway...I don't think that business model will work out legally. Resold by shady third parties? Maybe. Copied and bittorrented? Definitely.
> Resold as PDF files? Not by this company, anyway...I don't think that business model will work out legally. I wonder. If the company holds onto the PDF and just sends out that PDF whenever someone mails in a book already scanned, isn't this the equivalent of those music services which simply make you prove through uploading music that you already have a copy and then give you access to their one stored version of t…
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Not resold as physical books, no...since they cut the spine off the book so that they can scan it. Resold as PDF files? Not by this company, anyway...I don't think that business model will work out legally. Resold by shady third parties? Maybe. Copied and bittorrented? Definitely.
> Resold as PDF files? Not by this company, anyway...I don't think that business model will work out legally. I wonder. If the company holds onto the PDF and just sends out that PDF whenever someone mails in a book already scanned, isn't this the equivalent of those music services which simply make you prove through uploading music that you already have a copy and then give you access to their one stored version of t…
What I noticed about this company, after checking their website: 1) They list an "Accept direct shipment from Amazon" option (coming soon). Think about it: this means a book could be printed, sold, shipped to this company, scanned and destroyed without ever being read. Something is very odd here. 2) The business is located four blocks from my apartment. Maybe I'll try them out...
I 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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The 1DollarScan site says they cut the spines off the books to scan them, so unless that isn't accurate, they aren't reselling the books.
If they get the same book to scan twice, why actually do the second scan? Why not just use the scan from the first copy of the book? And if that is the case, now they have a fresh copy of the book with its spine intact. It would be a waste of the resources invested in the production of that physical book to not find some productive use for that copy.
I want to do this with all my books and paperwork (old bills, receipts, notes from college, photographs (crappy snapshots, really)). This was my plan: Buy a ScanSnap s1500m for $420. It does double sided scans at 20 ppm but that doesn't include OCR time or paper jams. Let's guess it averages 500 pages an hour. Pay a neighbor kid $10 an hour to cut and scan. Even if I sold the scanner when I was done, this is still wa…
It sounds like they do. Homepage says books/photos/business cards/documents/greeting cards.
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The 1DollarScan site says they cut the spines off the books to scan them, so unless that isn't accurate, they aren't reselling the books.
If they get the same book to scan twice, why actually do the second scan? Why not just use the scan from the first copy of the book? And if that is the case, now they have a fresh copy of the book with its spine intact. It would be a waste of the resources invested in the production of that physical book to not find some productive use for that copy.
A potential compromise, if simply giving out the same PDF is legal, is them offering a big option saying "Our records indicate we have this book on file! Do you want us to immediately send you a PDF copy when we receive your book [potentially discounted pricing or even a percentage of resell profits], or would you like to wait for a scan?" So yeah, now they have to do something with the hard copies, either resell or donate.
Edit: No need to speculate, they claim to shred and recycle everything after processing.
The digital photography method is certainly less destructive, but hugely more expensive & time consuming. A $15,000 scanner can do 120+ sheets per minute... The pricing for book pages seems very solid (keep in mind that scanning is quoted in impressions, so your 100 sheets is 50 pages double sided, if I'm not mistaken)