I guess that's what happens when a Japanese city takes an emetic.
Speaking of scanning, and Asia... I have this book which is really something else: it's a story of a girl's life from about 1900 in China, written by a Christian missionary, explaining how their lives were ruled by demons until the light of Christ etc, etc. It's really rather fascinating. Several years ago I started transcribing it by hand, but only made it through a chapter or two. Somewhere I can dig up the file so your computer can read it to you.
To make a long story short: Do you have a barter system for scanning books?
My barter system is pretty simple: 1 container of Trader Joe's pralines, otherwise referred to as Kestrellcrack.
If it's a trickier book which takes multiple days to scan, I request an inexpensive (under $10) used book from my Amazon wishlist. I love used books, but they have to have a clean text, absolutely no highlighting or underlining.
Characteristics which make for a more time-consuming scan include: page count (I can typically scan a 150-200 page book in a day, as long as it the dimensions allow me to fit 2 pages on the scanner at a time), cheap paper (ironically, most pre-WW 2 books use a better more long-lasting quality of paper), intricate fonts with fancy serifs, or a lot of pictures.
If there are pictures, Alexx and I could probably divide up the scanning.
Note: I try to be very gnetle with books when it comes to squashing them a bit to fit fit the entire page on the scanner, but if the book has used cheap glue on the spine, this can still result in some of the pages falling out like autumn leaves. This is one of the reasons why I hate mass market paperbacks.
This is all probably way more information than you were really looking for...
The book already opens flat - it's been much abused, so that's easy, but pages are sewn in. I seem to have temporarily misplaced it, or else I could give you a page count. It does have about 10 illustrations. Font is not weird as far as I can recall.
It had been given as a good book for a christian boy to my father, when he was a kid, tells you all about foot binding and gathering tea leaves, and how weird it was to educate the girls...
That would be a quick scan, probably taking less than an hour=1 container TJ pralines.
I also have a friend who is very into information concerning women in Asian cultures, and she would probably love a scan of this book, if you don't mind my sharing it with her.
The page count is pretty easy to guesstimate, as most books fall into one of four categories: skinny book (most children's books or very simple how-to books; page size may be a little larger than the average page size but there aren't that many pages so ti still scans quickly) average novel size (200-350 pages) slightly larger than average size (400-500 pages, what I think of as Stephen King or fantasy epic size) TOME (coffeetable book size,, with very large pages that take a lot of wiggling to get onto my scanner) Actually, there is probably a fifth size: doorstop size (longer than average fantasy epic, but the pages are still a standard size, so two pages can still be fit on the scanner per single scan).
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Date: 2013-11-04 01:19 pm (UTC)Speaking of scanning, and Asia... I have this book which is really something else: it's a story of a girl's life from about 1900 in China, written by a Christian missionary, explaining how their lives were ruled by demons until the light of Christ etc, etc. It's really rather fascinating. Several years ago I started transcribing it by hand, but only made it through a chapter or two. Somewhere I can dig up the file so your computer can read it to you.
To make a long story short: Do you have a barter system for scanning books?
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Date: 2013-11-04 01:50 pm (UTC)If it's a trickier book which takes multiple days to scan, I request an inexpensive (under $10) used book from my Amazon wishlist. I love used books, but they have to have a clean text, absolutely no highlighting or underlining.
Characteristics which make for a more time-consuming scan include: page count (I can typically scan a 150-200 page book in a day, as long as it the dimensions allow me to fit 2 pages on the scanner at a time), cheap paper (ironically, most pre-WW 2 books use a better more long-lasting quality of paper), intricate fonts with fancy serifs, or a lot of pictures.
If there are pictures, Alexx and I could probably divide up the scanning.
Note: I try to be very gnetle with books when it comes to squashing them a bit to fit fit the entire page on the scanner, but if the book has used cheap glue on the spine, this can still result in some of the pages falling out like autumn leaves. This is one of the reasons why I hate mass market paperbacks.
This is all probably way more information than you were really looking for...
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Date: 2013-11-04 01:57 pm (UTC)The book already opens flat - it's been much abused, so that's easy, but pages are sewn in. I seem to have temporarily misplaced it, or else I could give you a page count. It does have about 10 illustrations. Font is not weird as far as I can recall.
It had been given as a good book for a christian boy to my father, when he was a kid, tells you all about foot binding and gathering tea leaves, and how weird it was to educate the girls...
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Date: 2013-11-04 02:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-11-04 02:17 pm (UTC)I also have a friend who is very into information concerning women in Asian cultures, and she would probably love a scan of this book, if you don't mind my sharing it with her.
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Date: 2013-11-04 02:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-11-04 02:14 pm (UTC)skinny book (most children's books or very simple how-to books; page size may be a little larger than the average page size but there aren't that many pages so ti still scans quickly)
average novel size (200-350 pages)
slightly larger than average size (400-500 pages, what I think of as Stephen King or fantasy epic size)
TOME (coffeetable book size,, with very large pages that take a lot of wiggling to get onto my scanner)
Actually, there is probably a fifth size:
doorstop size (longer than average fantasy epic, but the pages are still a standard size, so two pages can still be fit on the scanner per single scan).