This popped up today in the TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home blog. Could we be close to having an affordable book scanner? This is from a Kroean company called Tamtus. So far, no info on when or where it can be purchase or at what price.
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Real-time capture and automatic save on the computer for repeated use
Portable and easy to carry Complete the entire scanning at a touch of a button in just a few seconds Let the user annotate directly over the scanned image
Impressively crisp image and detailed digital reproduction of the page
∧-shaped book cradle that produces flat page with no page curvature
Complete and useful software package that is exclusively designed for digitizing paper documents
via teleread.org