[OpenGLAM] Book scanners?

[Ben Laurie]

On 16 February 2014 17:33, Ana Valdés <agora158 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Should not be a great idea to share scanners? I mean, why need all the
> institutions to buy an own scanner? Maybe this list could work as a place to
> share between places located relative near to each other.
> It should be economical sound and logic.

Yeah, we'd be very happy to share.

> Ana
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> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Ben Laurie <ben at links.org> wrote:
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>> On 11 February 2014 00:20, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 6:12 AM, Ben Laurie <ben at links.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Does anyone on this list have any book scanner recommendations (or the
>> >> opposite)? Budget around £10,000...
>> >
>> >
>> > You'd probably get a few more suggestions if you spelled out your
>> > requirements in a little more detail.  High volume? (what's high volume
>> > to
>> > you?) Low volume? Destructive or non-destructive? Fragile books?  What
>> > size
>> > books?
>>
>> In general, this is for scanning historical source data.
>>
>> Volume: current project is 500,000 pages.
>> Non-destructive: in at least some cases, the source material is unique.
>> Fragile: possibly
>> Size: random, but generally bigger than A4 (probably not bigger than
>> A3 per page, though).
>>
>> > etc, etc  Even little things like giving your budget in a commonly
>> > understood currency could help.
>>
>> By "commonly understood currency" I guess you mean dollars. $15,000ish.
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