Maker Faire Brings Out eBook Inventions

This past weekend, Make Magazine’s Maker Faire visited New York City. Among a life sized “Mouse Trap” board game, a performance of Mentos exploding Coke bottles and Rubix cube-solving robots, there were a couple of book related innovations.

The Book Liberator is a homemade book scanner that uses two cameras within a cube structure to scan a print book. The photos are saved as image files, which can then be formatted into an eBook format using software called Djuvubind and Scantailor.

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