The big scanner just off the circulation desk room at the local university library is great for taking quick scans of huge oversize books...
It has like this big moving arm up on top, that somehow swings out into the air over the book that you lay out below for it to capture, so you don't have to flip the book upside down onto a glass plate or anything like that.
But, if you have a book with glossy pages, all too often there's this line of brightness across the image that eradicates any of the text that was underneath, and it's hard to adjust the book so that doesn't happen, or so that it at least happens at a manageable level.
So, beware!
For this, books published by Brill particularly suck.
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