On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 02:50:53PM +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: > I've got manuals much older than that. If I could get them scanned > for bitsavers then I'd have no interest in keeping the dead trees, > but I don't know anybody local willing to do it and shipping them > would be expensive.
You may want to look at so called "pro" scanners, which come with paper feeder (say, 40-50 pages at one go) and double side scanning. Since you are going to discard paper after the scan, unbinding the book should be ok. As of resolution, if I recall well, Al Kossow of bitsavers wrote he used 600dpi at the moment, lossless (or maybe ask him a question, to be sure). But hey, disk space is cheap, and two disks for redundancy is only twice as that. And Solomon-Reed checksums with, say, 20% of redund? This is going to be an archive, after all. I have just bought one such "pro", just the one on the cheap end of scale. There was plenty to choose from, until I started looking for one supported by Linux. Still in a box, waiting for me to get ready, so I cannot say how well the whole feeder thingy works. I just cross my fingers, hope it will do as I imagine it would or else I am cooked... because I am a paper hoarder and to make place for new equipment I have to carve out niche in a heap. The other solution is to prepare for digging tunnels. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
