I'm considering removing the pages from a 1911 book I have in order to scan them, and then having the book professionally reassembled. Can any of you suggest a reliable and inexpensive bookbinder to do this? Am I mad to even consider the idea? The book probably doesn't have any particular cash value, but it does have sentimental value to me. It's called "English for New Americans", and my grandfather used it when he came to this country around 1930. (The book itself is from 1911; it was used when he got it.) I'm willing to have it go through this abuse, but I'd like to have it usable afterward. Bruce Feist
Hi Bruce,I found the easiest way to dissamble a book by having a bookbinder do the cutting with the machine they regularly use to bring their sheets in a rectangular form.And for the re-assembling: here, especially in the cities with a university (and university library) the cheapest is - the local prison. I have no idea whether that is done in the US as well, but as they have to keep the inmates busy and give them an education for the time after the sentence, quite a few have a bookbinder shop established - and those are cheap and do a darn good job.Best regards - Norbert-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: "Bruce Feist" <brucedfeist@gmail.com> Gesendet: 12.02.2011 15:31:02 An: gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org Betreff: [gutvol-d] Bookbinders
I'm considering removing the pages from a 1911 book I have in order to
scan them, and then having the book professionally reassembled. Can any
of you suggest a reliable and inexpensive bookbinder to do this? Am I
mad to even consider the idea?
The book probably doesn't have any particular cash value, but it does
have sentimental value to me. It's called "English for New Americans",
and my grandfather used it when he came to this country around 1930.
(The book itself is from 1911; it was used when he got it.) I'm willing
to have it go through this abuse, but I'd like to have it usable afterward.
Bruce Feist
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On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Bruce Feist <brucedfeist@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm considering removing the pages from a 1911 book I have in order to scan them, and then having the book professionally reassembled. Can any of you suggest a reliable and inexpensive bookbinder to do this? Am I mad to even consider the idea?
Why are you scanning it? http://books.google.com/books?id=_pcUAAAAYAAJ has a copy, http://www.archive.org/details/englishfornewam01covegoog has a copy derived from a scanning no longer available, and http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924031755584 is a fresh Archive.org scan. -- Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.
On 2/12/2011 12:32 PM, David Starner wrote:
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Bruce Feist<brucedfeist@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm considering removing the pages from a 1911 book I have in order to scan them, and then having the book professionally reassembled. Why are you scanning it?
I think the only possible answer is "Because I don't yet have your skill at finding existing scans that are out there."<g> Thanks! Bruce Feist
Apart from David's point, I would just like to remark that I have practically given up scanning books on scanners. Instead I use a decent digital camera (nothing special, a 12 megapixel powershot, usually set to lower resolutions) instead of my scanner, which now lies idle. That way I need not butcher sometimes precious copies of books. It takes only a little practice to get faster and generally superior results. For large volumes of such "camera scanning" one can do a little setting up of ad hoc kit, but nothing demanding. My OCR gives, if anything, better results with the camera jpg files than the scanner output, especially with tiny typefaces. Think about it. Jon On 2011/02/12 16:31 PM, Bruce Feist wrote:
I'm considering removing the pages from a 1911 book I have in order to scan them, and then having the book professionally reassembled. Can any of you suggest a reliable and inexpensive bookbinder to do this? Am I mad to even consider the idea?
The book probably doesn't have any particular cash value, but it does have sentimental value to me. It's called "English for New Americans", and my grandfather used it when he came to this country around 1930. (The book itself is from 1911; it was used when he got it.) I'm willing to have it go through this abuse, but I'd like to have it usable afterward.
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Thanks, Jon; that sounds like a good idea. I have a stack of books that I'd like to scan. I'll check to see if they're out there, and if not I'll try the camera idea. Bruce On 2/12/2011 1:47 PM, Jon Richfield wrote:
Apart from David's point, I would just like to remark that I have practically given up scanning books on scanners. Instead I use a decent digital camera (nothing special, a 12 megapixel powershot, usually set to lower resolutions) instead of my scanner, which now lies idle.
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