Comrades, I just got an old 80s theory book from an older comrade as a gift and you’re lucky to even find a used print-version anywhere, let alone a pdf version. Even the title of the book itself yields a handful of results at most. So I thought: This shit needs to be digitized.

Thing is, I don’t have it in me to pull this thing apart just to scan it. Scanning via phone is suboptimal in my experience and doesn’t yield the best results to read on a kindle/pdf-reader. I’d be willing to just retype the thing, but at 300 pages that’s quite the workload too.

Is there a good way to do this that’s not super out there, expensive or time consuming?

  • @redtea
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    61 year ago

    Looks useful. There’s also ‘pen scanners’ and ‘personal document scanners’. Some are quite reasonably priced, although I’ve never used one so I can’t recommend any particular model.