Re: [sudo-discuss] [Digitalarchivists] I want to establish a book scanner at Sudo room or in Oakland

Hey Folks, Always glad to hear of more interest in book scanning. Just wanted to "swoop in from Berlin," as they say, to remark on the specialness of the Reetz 1.0 scanner. This is what was written to the last space (Double Union) who were thinking of borrowing it: The scanner in question was the first DIY Book Scanner kit <https://web.archive.org/web/20130302002026/http://diybookscanner.myshopify.com/products/diy-book-scanner-kit> offered by Daniel Reetz starting in 2012 (hereafter referred to as Reetz 1.0). We bought ours for $495 plus tax and S&H in April of 2013. The unit was the product of more work, willpower and idea exchange than I could possibly summarize here, though Daniel himself offers an abbreviated rundown <http://www.diybookscanner.org/archivist/indexaaae.html?page_id=29> on the current website. The unabbreviated history is written in the archive of the diybookscanner.org forums, the original Instructables project <http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-High-Speed-Book-Scanner-from-Trash-and-Cheap-C/?ALLSTEPS>, the many <https://www.wired.com/2009/12/diy-book-scanner/> articles <http://www.businessinsider.com/daniel-reetz-diy-book-scanner-2013-2> that catapulted the project to international attention, in between the folds of Daniel's voracious, odds-defying, rapid-prototyping brain, and perhaps in the pages of some future book on the subject (which we will scan on one of the Reetz scanners, so meta). It was also the direct basis for the Internet Archive's "Table Top Scribe <https://archive.org/details/tabletopscribesystem>" system, clandestinely constructed during a period in which we were lead to believe that our scanner was being retrofitted to integrate seamlessly with IA servers. A spontaneous visit to an open Friday lunch happened to give us front row seats to the black cloth unveiling of that unit, whose duplicitous origins <https://forum.diybookscanner.org/viewtopic.php?t=3098> have never been fully acknowledged. While it may not be immediately apparent to anyone eyeing the Reetz 1.0 in whatever corner of Noisebridge it currently occupies, this unit is much, much more than the sum of its CNC-milled parts. As the owners, assemblers and operators of both this and the newer "Archivist <http://diybookscanner.org/archivist/>" scanner (which we call Reetz 2.0), we'd like for whomsoever responsibility of this equipment be transferred to, temporarily or permanently, bear that history in mind and make a concerted effort to ensure its safety and security. The last thing I'd ask is that if ever it's not being used or not being treated excellently, it be returned to Noisebridge, just as if that were to happen at Noisebridge, it would be returned to me. Collecting different flavors of hackerspace dust is a cruel fate for such a storied instrument. If no one has any use or love for it, I always will. Best from "Berlin," -Danny On Dec 27, 2017 10:52 AM, "Jake" &lt;jake(a)spaz.org&gt; wrote: