There’s a really interesting article over at the Chronicle of Higher Education about a project by Professor Alexander Halavais’. Books take up space. That’s a problem for any librarian tasked with finding room on overcrowded shelves. It’s also a problem for a book-loving scholar who lives in a small New York City apartment with a […]
Continue readingI am quite possibly the last person who should be writing about higher education, but I find the ProfHacker blog on The Chronicle of Higher Education really interesting. They write about productivity and technology from a different angle, which I like. It doesn’t hurt that most of the writers are professors, associate professors, or assistant […]
Continue readingYou may remember that a few months ago I did a how to make a $20 book scanner post. What I did not know then, but I do now thanks to awesome DocumentSnap reader Luke from Australia, is that there is a whole vibrant community around building and using DIY book scanners. The main site […]
Continue readingIn most cases I recommend scanners with an automatic document feeder, but one big case where they don’t work out so well is when scanning a book. The most logical solution is to cut the book and then feed the pages through your scanner, but what if you don’t want to do that? Over on […]
Continue readingWe all know that a desktop scanner like the Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500 or S1500M is good for scanning a whole bunch of documents, but how about scanning an actual book? Came across this video from Japan (I think) where the guy used a heavy duty paper cutter (like this one?) to cut the spine off […]
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