1DollarScan will scan and digitize your book for $1

1DollarScan will scan and digitize your book for $1

Is that the dandiest thing?  Another way to reduce clutter or the beautiful images of perfectly stacked books--depending on how you look at it.

"Having old media digitized to get more space in the house, preserve them or simply make them portable isn’t exactly a new trend. But some startups, like Peggybank in the case of videos and photos, still find ways to stand out. And now a new company called 1DollarScan tries to do the same for books, documents, pictures and just about anything that’s printed on paper – through pricing.

1DollarScan is the US equivalent of a service in Japan called Bookscan, which is the largest of its kind in that country and hit several millions of US dollars in revenue within a year, according to the namesake company (in fact, the service is so successful that some customers in Japan currently have to wait for months to get their material digitized)."

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