On 11 September 2011 09:47, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > Latest in ION's line of cheap'n'cheerful digitisation devices. Derrick > Coetzee posted the YouTube video to G+: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=annCmIa-a08 > > Looks like a hideous pain in the backside (or the forearms) to me, but > I can see people bothering in some cases. It looks like the simplest > possible textbook-bootlegging machine, for example.
Eh for where damage isn't an issue there is an automated GPL licensed solution: http://www.geocities.jp/takascience/lego/fabs_en.html >Not sure I'd feel > so safe putting anything pre-1923 through it, or even fragile > paperbacks from the 1960s ... Depends what it is. Copies of punch are pretty cheap (particularly if you are completely unconcerned with quality) to the point where you can put up with any damage caused by dropping them on a flat bed scanner: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Punch_sultan_visit_1867reduced.png -- geni _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
