I saw a program about Google Books and their plan to scan every book in the world. They have V-shaped scanners, well actually Google don't let you see their scanners, but similar scanning initiatives used these V-shaped scanners. You lower the scanner down and it presses into the open book, supported underneath by a similarly V-shaped platform. In this way the book doesn't get damaged. I only have a flatbed scanner and I have to force all the notebooks flat which does sometimes damage them slightly, especially the weaker ones like this current green notebook.
Maybe one day there will be an online collection that I can put my scanned notebooks into. And then all of this time and effort would feel worthwhile. I'll happily continue, knowing that there is at least a potential of this being of use to someone at some point.
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