Article: Digital copycats: Personal digitization of books catching on across Japan

Quoting the article:

Referred to in Japan's Internet community as "jisui," (literally "cooking one's own meals"), the process involves feeding pages of a book through a scanner one by one to turn a work into digital form. Boosting the popularity of personal digitization is the emergence of portable devices such as Apple's iPad.

If this is the trend in Japan with 20% of surveyed iPad using doing it, I expect it will become a trend elsewhere.

And what about copyright?  The article notes that this is violation of copyright in Japan, but that the law is out of step with practice. 

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Thanks to Michael Porter (LibraryMan) for pointing me toward this article.