Book Liberation Call to Action!
If, 10 years ago, someone from the future told me that you’d be able to download videos, music, and objects but not books I’d have called them crazy! James Vasile is changing all that with his Book Liberator.
The Book Liberator need your help liberating books! We designed a machine for scanning physical volumes. This machine is cheap and simple to build (you could do it with a hacksaw and a screwdriver), uses off-the-shelf parts, and gobbles books at a rate of 600 to 900 pages an hour. Freely licensed plans and post-processing software are avaiable!
Our next step is dead-simple kits and a refined design. I drew a 3D-printed camera mount in openscad that clamps to the machine and holds your digicam to take nice, consistent shots of your book. I need some help refining the design from somebody willing to print prototypes so we can tweak/print/test until the thing is perfect.
The mount is on thingiverse. If anybody with a MakerBot or RepRap is interested in jumping in, we’re eager to collaborate.
If anyone can help this project out, it would be great!