Undoubtedly, one of the major themes of the 2011-2012 academic year for me has been books. Through a series of circumstances, I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to read more widely than ever before.

I have to admit that while this looks interesting, and I do love ebooks (I love my physical books as well), the very thought of converting my library makes me cringe. All said (novels, reference, ...

North Dakota State University graduate student Daniel Reetz is attracting worldwide attention for a do-it-yourself book scanner he invented. The 28-year-old created the scanner a year ago out of cheap ...

Although I tend to use my iPhone 4S and Readdle's Scanner Pro (US$6.99) or JotNot Scanner Pro ($1.99) apps to do most of my scanning, there are still documents that need a regular scanner of some sort ...

If you need to scan pages from books or paper documents you may be interested in the new professional document scanner created by the team over at CZUR. The CZUR ET scanner features second-generation ...

Accessing a plethora of information through portable devices is something much more practically beneficial than carrying books and documents around! Where books and documents give you excess weight ...

TOKYO, April 16 (Reuters Life!) - Simply flipping through a book may not seem like the best to way to scan it, but a Japanese research group at Tokyo University has created new software that allows ...

Google has spent years scanning books, recreating the world's leading libraries as digital files we can read and search on PCs and smartphones. The project has faced a fair amount of opposition -- ...

Despite some reservations about the build quality and how robust this equipment might be in the longer term, I can’t deny that it does what CZUR claims. It capably scans books and documents up to A3.

Title says it all.<BR><BR>I've got a decent Canon scanner & a bunch of Japanese language books I would like to scan, so I can take them with me wherever I go.<BR><BR ...