{"id":5970,"date":"2011-01-14T04:16:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T04:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=5970"},"modified":"2011-01-14T04:16:45","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T04:16:45","slug":"ion-book-saver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2011\/01\/14\/ion-book-saver\/","title":{"rendered":"Ion Book Saver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ionaudio.com\/booksaver\">Ion Book Saver<\/a>, a $150 non-destructive book scanner for the home or office.  You have to flip the pages manually, although it seems it&#8217;s far faster than a traditional flatbed scanner.  Sadly the device only seems to be available from big retail stores in the USA, and not via Amazon or in the UK.   It&#8217;ll be interesting to see if these become available to the UK privately, via eBay sellers, and at a reasonable premium.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/2011\/01\/ion-b.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ion-b\" width=\"420\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5971\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d also like to see a video of how it copes with a fat hardback and a tight spine.  The device lifts up via the handle, but doesn&#8217;t appear to have the weight or clips needed to keep pages flat in such circumstances.  Still, it looks useful for quickly digitising a lot of old ephemera such as newsletters and magazines.  Paper journals, too.  The device saves to .jpg or .pdf on the slot-in SD card.<\/p>\n<p>Ion &mdash; if you can send me a review device I&#8217;ll happily give it a detailed review here at the JURN blog \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Ion Book Saver, a $150 non-destructive book scanner for the home or office. You have to flip the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2011\/01\/14\/ion-book-saver\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-general-observations","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}