"Frank Grimes" (FrankGrimes)
04/08/2016 at 17:09 • Filed to: None
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"Frank Grimes" (FrankGrimes)
04/08/2016 at 17:09 • Filed to: None | 2
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so i got this book through library loan from georgia to utah! anypoo this thing costs $75 or so on amazon and I just want to scan all the important bits any idea how to accomplish this?
Slant6
> Frank Grimes
04/08/2016 at 17:11 |
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Scanner and a few hours.
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Frank Grimes
> Slant6
04/08/2016 at 17:12 |
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Ugh! Its such a pain though!
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Slant6
> Frank Grimes
04/08/2016 at 17:15 |
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You’re saving $75 though. You could use a scanning app that takes a picture and vectorizes it.
Shmevans
> Frank Grimes
04/08/2016 at 17:15 |
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Digital camera and just look at it on your computer/tablet? Print in grey scale if needed.
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> Frank Grimes
04/08/2016 at 17:15 |
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On a budget hahaha!
Step one - Dig a hole!
Step two - Commence throwing money into hole
*That’s not to say it’s a waste of money
promoted by the color red
> Frank Grimes
04/08/2016 at 17:20 |
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https://www.scribd.com/doc/259503500/…
I Will Always Be The Honey Badger
> Frank Grimes
04/08/2016 at 17:26 |
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Ahem:
https://fridge.pov.lt/~alga/dxf/Mx-5…
TheRealBicycleBuck
> Frank Grimes
04/08/2016 at 19:42 |
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Use a scanning app for your phone. It will deskew and color balance the photos, making them look like they were scanned. Works great.
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Frank Grimes
> I Will Always Be The Honey Badger
04/08/2016 at 19:47 |
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Ooooooh thanks! I had done a lot of searching but hadn’t come across that!
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I Will Always Be The Honey Badger
> Frank Grimes
04/08/2016 at 19:51 |
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No problem. I’ve gotten good at finding obscure manuals and books on the Google machine.
facw
> Frank Grimes
04/08/2016 at 20:52 |
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With a home scanner or camera, you’re basically stuck doing it the hard way. Libraries with digitization projects have big automated scanners, but it would be hard to access one of those, especially to make an illegal copy.
It would be a bit evil but you could “lose” the book and see what they fine you. Decent chance it’s less than $75. If not you could miraculously find it again.
Hopefully this will be a thing of the past soon with print on demand or electronic copies (in many cases, though I guess not this one, it would be cheaper for the library to just buy the book on Amazon and give it to the reader than to do inter-library loan, which ends up being pretty expensive).
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Frank Grimes
> facw
04/08/2016 at 22:43 |
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Thanks for your reply. My library I have discovered actually has this dope scanner thing the book sets on a V shaped thing and has a foot operated switch. I need to figure out about it further. They will actually scan a book for you on request up to 5 chapters!
I don’t think it would be illegal would it if I scanned the book for my own use?
It really crazy they sent the book from georgia to utah for me. I think they get a really good rate on USPS shipping since its a library. Also its a university library.
I had the very same idea of “losing” the book and seeing what they charge me for it.
I think I might rig up a quick a dirty photo booth and use my camera.
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facw
> Frank Grimes
04/09/2016 at 00:36 |
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The fact it is for personal use doesn’t matter too much, except that it’s not worth the time to go after small-scale non-commercial copyright violations (being non-commercial does help with the fair-use tests, but this would still fail):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#U.S._fair_use_factors
Your library probably actually pays a bundle for ILL. It’s not that their shipping is cheap (normally they pay commercial rates or close in my experience, though USPS media mail isn’t that expensive), it’s that even with those costs, it’s a lot cheaper for them to borrow from another library than to keep a book that rarely gets used in their collection. ILL programs help libraries deal with that long-tail of books, allowing scholars (and people who want to build their own car I guess) to obtain a broader range of material, while avoiding having to stock every book ever written. As I say though, we’re quickly approaching the point where just buying the reader a copy, or paying for a rental ebook version will cheaper than shipping things all around the country, and handling the overhead of lending.
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Frank Grimes
> facw
04/10/2016 at 00:16 |
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I thought USPS has a library rate of course i have no idea if there is much of a discount.