I have acquired two Canon SD600 digital cameras for a bookscanner for
sudoroom.
these cameras are good for a bookscanner because they can run chdk and
thus be set to operate very cooperatively with a bookscanner. plus they
are good cameras.
the reason there are two is because a good bookscanner photographs both
left and right pages at the same time. The user flips the page, lowers
the glass panels (which flatten the pages) and presses a single shutter
button.
if anyone here wants to make a bookscanner, and someone is willing to
bottomline the project (not me) i will hand over the cameras.
-jake