I know what you mean. I just got a 695 page mass market science fiction paperback in the mail today. The print is small and the margins are close. I’ll do as much of it as I can in two page mode, but almost certainly, I’ll have to jimmy the book for some one page at a time scanning as well. Evan From: Gary Petraccaro Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 4:04 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Two-page Scanning That's what I'm finding. It seems like two-page is easier on my hands than trying to hold the book just right. The recognition numbers seem better. I could deal with a couple hundred pages, but the next one has over 640 pages. As much as I don't want to destroy a book, there's a point where I don't want to destroy me either. ----- Original Message ----- From: Evan Reese To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 11:34 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Two-page Scanning Unfortunately, I’ve had to do parts of these mass market books with close margins in one-page mode, and it’s doable but it’s a bit of a pain. You have to hold the book so that the second page, the one you don’t want to scan, is just slightly over the glass. Then you have to press down pretty hard to make sure you get the text right at the spine of the first page. Placement is critical here. If the book is too far over the edge, you’ll get junk characters from text on the second page. If it’s not far enough, you’ll still lose text from the first page if the margins are really close. You may have to rescan a page once or twice before you’re satisfied as to quality. I avoid scanning this way as much as I can because it’s stressful on my hands; more stressful than pressing a book down in two-page mode, and much more stressful than simply holding the book against the edge of the scanner in one-page mode when margins are decent, which is most of the time, fortunately. Evan From: Gary Petraccaro Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 10:06 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Two-page Scanning I've had to do 3 mass market-sized paperbacks recently. None of them came out at all well in single-page mode. I'm using K1000 V.13.04 and a Plustek 3600 scanner. When I asked someone to check the margins, they told me that they usually went close to the binding. How do you do a book like that in single-page mode? Where do you have to keep the border of the scanner to see to it the lines come out? Just letting the book hang over doesn't seem to do the job. Thanks.