Swift, canny book scanner bodes publishing mischief a-plenty

"Book flipping scanning system developed at University of Tokyo by Takashi Nakashima, Yoshihiro Watanabe, Takashi Komuro, and Masatoshi Ishikawa. For more tech news go to http://www.spectrum.ieee.org "

*Well, so much for the barriers to entry required to turn books into the functional equivalents of mp3s.

*By the way, that new Cisco router is supposed to be able to download the entire contents of the Library of Congress in a little bit more than one second.

*Of course, that's assuming that...