Dear sane-devel If you want a cheap book scanner, do what I did. 4 years or more ago, I bought avery cheap Canon Lide 25. I bought this because the distance between the ending of the bulb and itscarrier is only a few mms. I carefully remover the 2 plastic strips down each side, so that the glass could be removed. Before this I stuck a label on the glass to mark the edge of the bulbcarrier.
So when the glass is removed a glass cutter can remove the unnecessary glass, leaving a small piece untouched at the lamp start end, then removed part of the plastic case, and held it together with electrician's tape, and, bingo, you will have a scanner which will scan a page of a book, with the print edge, only 7mm from the gutter of the book. Every other image on scanning is upside down, but with straightening and Acrobat no bother, because Acrobat will rotate alternate pages. Regards Peter Davenport
