On Thu, 18 Jul 2019, John Foust via cctalk wrote:
At 04:50 PM 7/18/2019, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
(1) wire-ring bounded. What's the best way to scan these? The easiest is to
just clip the wire binding and drop it in the scanner. But then what?
Those are going to snag on each other, no? I'd trim the edges off.
(2) Folded with staples. These are booklet format, with stables in the
middle. I could easily remove the staple and scan. but how do I replace the
staple?
Cut along the middle using a paper cutter.
(3) Gum bound. These books are bound with some kind of gum / goo on the
spine. Some of these are so old I could just remove it and have no real
degradation of the state. Others have spines that are still in good shape.
Probably needs a pro paper cutter.
A "paper shear"
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00MWB1C2A
looks like a cheap hobby version.
Notice
1) the CLAMP
2) although it has a swinging arm to operate, the cutting is not done by
the edge of the swinging arm (those do not give a clean cut through any
thickness)
If you are not going to rebind, then get a good paper shear.
Some printing and binding businesses will cut the binding off fairly
cheaply.
If you do cut the binding off, you will lose a little of the
margins/gutters, so keep that in mind before you slice it.
