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My wife and I decided to simplify (declutter) by going digital several years ago. This was one of my primary justifications for buying an iPad and I no longer buy print books if an electronic version is available.
Recently we began the laborious process of sorting through my collection of books and magazines, making essentially three piles:
1) Books and magazines I thought I wanted but have never (and probably will never) read -- donate and/or pitch as appropriate. Replace with electronic version if I ever do end up actually needing/wanting it
2) Books and mags I want and use that an electronic version exist for -- replace and donate dead tree version
3) Books and mags I want and use w/o an acceptable electronic version -- this becomes more problematic. For some there just isn't and maybe never will be an electronic version due to low print volumes or formatting issues (like Atlases).
Some of these last category I had decided to digitize myself and bought a Fujitsu scanner that works very well. So I dutifully began the process this weekend with a cookbook, a song book and a comic book. All went very well and the finally product was great thanks to the scanner and Preview's built-in PDF editing capabilities.
The only problem was nerving myself to take a razor knife to my books to prepare them for the sheet feeder. Suffered some emotional angst over this and the aftermath staring at the pile of loose pages which I dutifully stuffed in the trash bag (after verifying the scan quality).
Total time to process and then edit the resulting PDFs for the three books was a little less than 2 hours.
Recently we began the laborious process of sorting through my collection of books and magazines, making essentially three piles:
1) Books and magazines I thought I wanted but have never (and probably will never) read -- donate and/or pitch as appropriate. Replace with electronic version if I ever do end up actually needing/wanting it
2) Books and mags I want and use that an electronic version exist for -- replace and donate dead tree version
3) Books and mags I want and use w/o an acceptable electronic version -- this becomes more problematic. For some there just isn't and maybe never will be an electronic version due to low print volumes or formatting issues (like Atlases).
Some of these last category I had decided to digitize myself and bought a Fujitsu scanner that works very well. So I dutifully began the process this weekend with a cookbook, a song book and a comic book. All went very well and the finally product was great thanks to the scanner and Preview's built-in PDF editing capabilities.
The only problem was nerving myself to take a razor knife to my books to prepare them for the sheet feeder. Suffered some emotional angst over this and the aftermath staring at the pile of loose pages which I dutifully stuffed in the trash bag (after verifying the scan quality).
Total time to process and then edit the resulting PDFs for the three books was a little less than 2 hours.