On Demand Book Service

We bought one of these at my work, and as I recall it was around $10K. Pretty expensive for a metal rack and two digital cameras.

We probably could have built it ourselves for a few hundred bucks, plus the cost of the cameras.

In other news, the Pope has (sort of) apologized for the Church's involvement in residential schools:

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/04/29/pope-first-nations042909.html

This came surprisingly quick considering it took them about 400 years to apologize to Galileo.

http://www.diybookscanner.org/

Here is how that project has evolved since earlier this year... a great community to collaborate with for the purpose of the ODBS project.