I've been thinking about the same topic recently, with a specific focus on antiquarian books.
There is a local business I think of as a "Book Butcher". They buy an old book with beautiful engravings, cut out the pages and resell the individual pages as interior design pictures for hanging. Imagine if we could get them to scan & archive each book before pulling it apart...
Another idea is simply archiving the graphics from eBay listings. Sometimes there is valuable information in the pictures that accompany listing, but they disappear forever once the item sells.
I'd be glad to connect with anyone who's interested in this stuff.
At the same flea market, there was a stand selling pages ripped from a book (I think it was a dictionary) and fed through a printer to add a picture to the page. I found the concept interesting, but the pictures they used were mostly bad. There were a few good ones, but most were pixelated Star Wars clip art kind of stuff or Jack Daniels logo.
There is a local business I think of as a "Book Butcher". They buy an old book with beautiful engravings, cut out the pages and resell the individual pages as interior design pictures for hanging. Imagine if we could get them to scan & archive each book before pulling it apart...
Another idea is simply archiving the graphics from eBay listings. Sometimes there is valuable information in the pictures that accompany listing, but they disappear forever once the item sells.
I'd be glad to connect with anyone who's interested in this stuff.