[Daniel Reetz] spent six years working as a Disney engineer during the day and on his book scanner, the archivist at night. Some time last year, [Daniel] decided enough is enough, got married, and ...

A very interesting war is being waged on books. This time it isn’t about publishers and the agency model or the stigma behind self-publishing. This war is actually about the right and wrong of ...

November 22, 2012 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google If digitizing a historic collection of books is important to you or your local historical society or library ...

Like any learned individual, [Justin] has a whole mess of books. Not being tied to the dead-tree format of bound paper, and with e-readers popping up everywhere, he decided to build a low-cost book ...

North Dakota State University graduate student Daniel Reetz is attracting worldwide attention for a do-it-yourself book scanner he invented. The 28-year-old created the scanner a year ago out of cheap ...

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, ...

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 ...

Man, if only books were like CDs, and we could just slide them into our computers and have them perfectly ripped into e-books within minutes. Not since the CD was launched have we been faced with ...

So you want to be the next Google. You've hooked yourself up with a sweet search algorithm, set up the server farm, and have AJAX out the wazoo. Now it's time for the nitty gritty like book scanning, ...

For the past eight years, Google has been working on digitizing the world’s 130 million or so unique books. While the pace of new additions to the Google Books initiative has been slowing down, ...