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The Rabble:
 Not to "high jack" the tread but there are a lot of people who do scans here so I want to ask how do you
keep from damaging the comic when scanning ? Particularly with a two page scanner. Does this not destroy the
spine ? Or at least do considerable damage ? :'(

Yoc:
That's one of the bigger concerns with scanning.  Our most prolific scanners like freddyfly try to buy the cheapest comics they can partly because they know there's a chance an 8.0 wont survive a typical scanner and stay 8.0.

Rangerhouse has spent big money and bought a museum level scanner designed to protect the originals.  You can see it here (scroll down a bit) -
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/forum/index.php/topic,4081.0.html

tilliban:
Mr. Rabble,
I scan a lot of old books (the hard way, by pressing them page for page onto the machine) and it's like this:

A book in good condition will survive the process without noticeable damage!

A book in fair condition may detach the cover or the centerfold (if it were hanging by a thread in the first place).

A book in poor condition (brittle and dry) will flake considerably and may lose pages.
But poor books can only win by being scanned - because they now will "live on" as nice looking scans.
Which don't fall apart when you look at them.

narfstar:
Or buy old books for under the cost of a new book. Cut them apart and put the pages through a document feeder.

tilliban:
Narf and Snard!
You're scaring the bejeezus out of people!
 :o
Removing staples or cutting up the whole book???
 :)

What I do is to relieve pressure from the spine - I use a half-inch thick slat or board to hold the page and make it flat for scanning.
There's no pressure on the spine this way. Or hardly.
Good condition books can stand more than you might think...

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