I was recently asked how I would go about digitizing books from my library. I've been wondering what people are doing so I did a bit of research this morning and found out there are interesting projects out there for building your own book scanner.

The video below shows the current scanner design from DIY Book Scanner. It looks like the site also hosts links to other designs as well. Including one built with Legos.

I found another scanner from The Book Liberator Project that isn't as complex as the DIY Book Scanner, and should be easier to store. I found it on Make

Finally, it looks like ION might have an inexpensive scanner coming out, but they've removed it from their website. Here is a link to a review I found.