The rise of tablet computers, such as Apple's iPad, and e-book readers, such as Amazon's Kindle, has resulted in a rise in popularity for electronic versions of books. If you want to use one with a ...

I was a bookworm when I was a kid, reading almost a book a day. I lived overseas, and English books were hard to come by, so I devoured any I could find. Though this was long before I knew anything ...

Books may be the last frontier of the digital age, most of their pages unscanned, and unsearchable on the Internet. Instead, they’re on library shelves, far from the reach of a Web browser. Enter ...

Scanners for loose papers have become so commonplace that almost every printer includes one, but book scanners have remained frustratingly rare for non-librarians and archivists. [Brad Mattson] had ...

Scanning documents is no longer a tough task. Thanks to dedicated scanning machines that have been around for a while now, there are multiple varieties available in the market today. However, not ...

Scanners for loose papers have become so commonplace that almost every printer includes one, but book scanners have remained frustratingly rare for non-librarians and archivists. [Brad Mattson] had ...

If you've ever wanted to scan the content of every single one of your books, for insurance in case of a flood or something else as equally compulsive, the new Booksnap book scanner from Atiz might be ...

Printed media may be dying, but that doesn't mean it can't experience a digital afterlife. Book scanning technology is allowing companies like Google to convert vast archives of old text into computer ...

(Nanowerk News) Developed at the Ishikawa Oku Lab at the University of Tokyo, the BFS-Auto book scanning robot can achieve high-speed and high-definition book digitization at over 250 pages/min using ...

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, ...

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 -- ...

If you’ve ever seen the 1980s movie Short Circuit, you might remember the scene where Number 5 reads an entire volume of the encyclopedia in a few seconds. Fantasy, you say? Maybe not. A new ...