Suppose you borrowed a book. Can you scan it all using your computer scaner?Is it worthwhile to do such thing?

Question

You can have the book for all, easily accesible . On the other hand it's some work to copy it all

Answer 1

Yes you could do it. It would take you some time (depending on the size of the book) and the quality would be subpar (because of the book binding and the flat scanner, the pages would not be laying perfectly flat) . But depending on WHAT you are scanning it may not matter. Is it worthwhile? I wouldn't think so. A book can go anywhere, can be opened up at anytime and rarely is someone going to try to steal it. There are many publications that are printed in E-book form (download an entire copy of a bok to read off your computer) but I read to relax, and when I'm on the computer I want to do things other than just read.

Answer 2

Worthwhile??? Yea, if it's just 15-25 pages.
A real book? Not worthwhile at all. Once you factor your time, paper plus ink (or toner) into it all, you've spent much more than the book actually costs. This of course excludes very rare and valuable books, but that should go w/o saying.

Answer 3

photocopy the whole book first, then feed it into the scanner so the whole scan will be saved as a book, not each page as a seperate file ! then you can access your book and have it altogether as anaatchment.