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I am happy with my Epson Perfection 1. I use Magazine setting at 300 dots/inch targeted for printing. 2. I save as large high quality JPEG (about a 72). 3. Upload to Adobe Lightroom. 4. Export with target file size of 500K maximum at desired size for display on web . 5. Upload to my account at Pbase (most people use Photobucket) Takes 5-10 minutes if I just want to scan one book. Most scanners can do a good job with the right settings for the intended task.

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Cosmic, I asked DiceX the same question a few months ago. Here is his reply: I received the book today. It looks to me like it was a "hand bound reject". I'll try to explain it... A publisher requires a certain number of books to be produced. During the bindery run, they have enough raw product to produce the run + a percentage predicted by the bindery allowed for waste. Say the run is 100,000 books and the bindery expects 3% waste...They receive 103,000 books worth of raw product. During the run there are books that jam up in the binder, or have odd flaws (untrimmed, unstapled, no cover, etc.). Those books are stacked to the side until the end of the run. When the raw product has been depleated, if the count doesn't add up to what the publisher ordered, they have to find a way to fill the order. They go through the "reject" skid to find any books that can be salvaged. There is usually nothing wrong with them, they just have been produced incorrectly. They take those books and piece together what they can. These books are bound by hand, stitched (stapled) by hand, then hand trimmed on a flatbed cutter. Whatever they have to do on a book by book basis. After "pulling rejects", if the order still has not been filled, they have to go back to press to run enough raw pieces to finish it off. The book you sent looks like it was produced without a cover. The body of the book had already been stapled, so a fresh cover was placed on the book and stitched onto the body. (The second set of staples) The staples are done by hand, so that would explain why they were off centered. There are no other staple holes in the cover, so it was definately a raw cover that was placed on the book. Afterwards it was hand trimmed on a flatbed. No doubt in my mind that the book left the factory this way. I don't know if this book would have passed through CGC without a purple label, because I don't know if they would have been able to tell it was a factory error. The following two WDCS comics, which I likely purchased at the same time in 1973 and likely were from the same production stack, unlike the one above both have four staples through the cover. Copy 1 Copy 2 In this case my guesstimate is that the Mark Jeweler inserts were added after the end of the intial run as the one copy that still has an insert (I usually pulled them) only has two staples through the insert. Both copies also have similar production creases running near the 50 Happy Years that are hard to see in the scans. I am curious how common something like this is and if anyone else has any other explanations or thoughts. I would have a hard time believing that the manufacturer would go to this kind of manual work for more than a few books to save having to make another run.