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This is the home page and the documentation wiki of the BookLiberator project.  We also have a [[http://bookliberator.com/blog|blog]] that contains all the latest BookLiberator news, including information on when kits will be ready for sale.
 
BookLiberator is a set of free software and hardware to digitize books: it lets you photograph all the pages in a book without harming the book.  The resulting images can be processed with free, open source software to make user-friendly files in a variety of formats. 

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From book to ebook, it is BookLiberator's goal to make every step as simple as possible. 

We're planning to have an easy-to-assemble kit for sale soon, at around $120 US (without cameras, since so many customers will already have consumer-grade digital cameras), plus appx another $200 if you need the cameras.

In the meantime, there are do-it-yourself building instructions available at [[HardwarePlans]] and in our [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/bkrpr/|flickr stream]], and specific HowTo information over [[http://www.instructables.com/id/Assembling_the_camera_mount_for_bkrprorgs_book_r/|on instructables]].  The software is all open source.  We're working with the [[http://decapod-project.org|Decapod]] archival scanner project to ensure that their software is BookLiberator-compatible, and we also have some custom-written [[http://launchpad.net/bookliberator|software]].  We'll update this space as we test and as the software progresses.

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===== Blog =====
The BookLiberator has a [[http://bookliberator.com/blog|blog]] (and an [[http://bookliberator.com/blog/?feed=rss2|RSS feed]]).  It's the best way to keep up with the latest BookLiberator news.  Alternatively, you can read or join our [[http://groups.google.com/group/bkrpr|google group]] and follow along with the discussion of everything we're doing here.
===== Help and Documentation =====

We're putting together [[help]] for the software and we've started a [[FAQ]]. Check out the [[http://bookliberator.com/doku.php?do=index&id=start|index]] at the bottom of the page for more documentation related pages.

We also have [[PressClippings]], which are documentation of a different sort.

===== Get Involved =====

There are a number of ways [[YouCanHelp]]!  We need devs, documentarians, and testers.  If you would like to improve these pages, jump right in and [[ContributeToThisWiki]].  If you want to discuss BookLiberator or how you might help, drop a line to [[Ian]], [[James]] or [[http://www.red-bean.com/kfogel/|Karl]].

We're not the only game in town.  There are [[OtherEfforts]].

===== BookLiberator on You Tube =====

View a video of the BookLiberator in action here: 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNfQb0NZjWY

Other demonstration materials can be found at [[DemoMaterials]]

===== Partners =====

 //The BookLiberator project receives support from [[http://questioncopyright.org/bookliberator|QuestionCopyright.org]].// 

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The BookLiberator logo was designed by Winnie Fung.