The rise of tablet computers, such as Apple's iPad, and e-book readers, such as Amazon's Kindle, has resulted in a rise in popularity for electronic versions of books. If you want to use one with a ...

I was a bookworm when I was a kid, reading almost a book a day. I lived overseas, and English books were hard to come by, so I devoured any I could find. Though this was long before I knew anything ...

Most people think of scanners as that quaint mechanism that looks like an old photocopier on the printer, or an independent flatbed ideal for capturing receipts. But in commercial terms, there are two ...

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Scanners for loose papers have become so commonplace that almost every printer includes one, but book scanners have remained frustratingly rare for non-librarians and archivists. [Brad Mattson] had ...

Responding to concerns from several academic and commercial publishers, Google has made minor adjustments in its vast project to scan library books, and Google officials say they will not scan any ...

The process, developed by MIT researchers, uses tetrahertz radiation, which is absorbed by ink and paper differently. Software then analyzes the absorption pattern and the microscopic space air fills ...