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Photograph the books, a dozen at a time. Put a box number label next to the books. Put the books in their box, glue the label to the box. Stack the boxes.

Sort the boxes by height, line them up in a row. Put slats of wood between the rows to distribute and stabilize the load.

I wrote a program to automatically generate simple HTML files to display the images. See sample:

http://kyber.ca/b/index.html

Use OCR to digitize title & author..



Hire Mechanical Turks or cheap offshore labor to type titles & authors from the photos (no need to ship the books).




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