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Copying a book is always tedious. Put book on photocopier, push button, wait, turn page. Repeat a zillion times.
The only way around this is to cut the spine and put the pages into the automatic feeder, but you wouldn't want to do that with most books.
Why not have a photocopier that automatically
turns the pages and copies the whole thing?
It could also have a setting for how many pages you want copied: "12 pages from this page onwards". This way you can copy one article from a magazine, for example. Make students' lives easier.
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in the UK you are breaking copyright law with regard to books. |
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Isn't there a rule about being allowed to copy up to x pages, as long it is under y% of the whole book, and for personal use only? That's the way it works in Sweden. |
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yes you are right - I think its about 5% but I'm guessing now. I imagine copying a magazine is OK though. |
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Actually a decent digital camera will take a quite readable photo of a book. Just take hand-held pictures of the book pages next to a window for light. |
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I do this at work sometimes and also take digital pics of whiteboards after meetings. We even bought a "staff camera" for this purpose. A Kodak DC4800. Works great. |
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[po], surely the UK has a limited period of copyright? A book-copier would be a boon to Project Gutenberg & its kin as they make works now in the public domain electronically accessible. |
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For Gutenberg an OCR solution is what is needed, no? |
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Copyright laws vary greatly from country to country. Most countries have limited duration of copyright. Many also include provisions for Fair Use exceptions to the usual rules. For example, in the USA it is acceptable under the Fair Use clause to make copies of short sections of the work for academic use, and certain other non-profit personal uses. You can also make a single archival copy of an entire work for which you have already purchased a licensed copy. However, you must destroy the archival copy if the license expires or you transfer the licensed copy to somebody else. You do not need to obtain permission from the copyright holder or pay any fees as long as you stay within the boundaries of Fair Use. |
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Printed media that have survived long enough for the copyright to expire may be too fragile to survive any kind of automated page turner. |
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nice idea, and is anyone really bothered about the breaking of copyright law in this regard? - nobody seems to mind it with music. How about a damp thumb stylee device to turn the page. |
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Good idea. I was just doing some photocopying of this type today. I have to drrrrrrrraaaaaaaagggggggg myself to go do some more this evening. I wonder how much of the tedium is actually related to the library "ambience". |
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Many, many people have copied books for their own use. But 10% of a text is usually cited as the limit without breaching copyright law in Oz. |
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Until you sell it, no one. |
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We used to have one of these in our office. It was called the "Admin Guy"
"Hey Bob, just photocopy this please..." |
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I belive there is a copier made for this purpose.
I have seen a picture of it a few years ago. It may have been mfg'd. by Ose' .
It did require a bit of manual labor to open pages and turn the book.
Many copiers have a "book copy" function that will copy the two open pages on separate sheets of paper. It still requires handeling the book
to open the pages. I guess were still not at the "Jetsons" stage yet. |
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As far as I know, that's a standard feature on most copiers. |
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