I had the cover cut off my book this morning for $2. I then ran it through the office copier which was able to scan double sided and save to a pdf. The resulting file is 90mb for 400 pages which works out to 225K/page.

The quality looks very nice on the screen. I started with 200dpi but the text was a little but crude so I moved to 300dpi which looks very nice. So now I have a process that is easy to to and produces good results.

The next thing I would like to verify is wether it looks ok on a kindle or a sony book reader. Any volunteers to try it for me?

90 megs sounds big?

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Edited 999 time(s). Last edit at 12:08PM by jdc.

90 megs because it's a picture of each page. Not text.

I plan to do the reading using my computer so 90mb is no big deal. I'd like to leave the door open for reading on a kindle in the future though which is why I'm looking for a volunteer to verify this pdf looks ok on the kindle screen.

i guess what i meant is that the kindle is supposed to get 300 titles on a 256 mb SD card -- and download full books in less than one minute -- with a 90 meg file that wont happen

same sorta specs for the sony...

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Edited 999 time(s). Last edit at 12:08PM by jdc.

I'm sure the kindle could get that many books onto a memory card, if the pdf was a text pdf. In this case it is a pdf of graphics so the size is going to be larger. Since the book is for my own edification (I even bought a second title for this purpose) I don't need to be as small as the commercial offerings.

So, I'm still looking for someone to test it for me. Not a big deal but it would be nice. I have a 22mb smaller book if people don't want to download a 90mb file.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/19/2008 04:37PM by beerman.

do you have acrobat pro? have you tried to optimize the file

have you thought about trying to OCR the scans?

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Edited 999 time(s). Last edit at 12:08PM by jdc.

in all the time you spent cutting, scanning, converting, etc. you could have just read the book, j/k

Have you considered converting the " pictures" to text using Resdiris or something like it?

Unfortunately I do not own software to convert to ocr and it is too expensive to purchase. And AGAIN, I am not concerned about the file size even if others ARE concerned.

Big Daddy Cool, I think I've spent more time saying I don't care about the file sizes than I spent cutting, copying etc.