For nearly two years, Daniel Reetz dreamed of a book scanner that could crunch textbooks and spit out digital files he could then read on his PC. Book scanners, like the ones Google is using in its ...

Daniel Reetz is an artist and engineer who ran into a problem one day – his office building collapsed, breaking its steam pipes and ruining every book in the building. But while the physical books ...

Bookshelves today are simply not as appealing as they used to be, and there’s no shortage of people looking to digitize their own book collections. Fortunately, we now have easy and relatively ...

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 ...

A project that volunteers volunteered to digitize textbooks by using volunteers using the DIY kit produced by volunteers on the Internet was done by students learning the relationship between ...

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 ...

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 was a bookworm when I was a kid, reading almost a book a day. I lived overseas, and English books were hard to come by, so I devoured any I could find. Though this was long before I knew anything ...

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, ...