Friday, February 09, 2007
Plustek OpticBook Flatbed Book Scanner
A couple of years ago I set out to reduce the size of he piles of books and magazines on my shelves by scanning them and converting them to pdf files. But I soon discovered that my flat scanner was not really up to the task. No matter how hard I pressed the pages against the scanner, the part of the page near the binding had a curvy distortion. What I really needed was one of those scanners designed for books. But those were far too expensive. So I gave up.
It looks like there’s a solution in the Plustek OpticBook scanner, though. For less than $300, it offers a scanning bed that extends to the very edge of the unit, allowing you to get a flat scan along the binding edge. Special softwre apparently also gets rid of the shadow effect. You can see the results from the Plustek website below. This is definitely on my short list of things to get and of projects to take on this summer.
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About the Miniature Wargaming Hobby
Miniature Wargaming is part of the "adventure games" hobby, which includes r ole p laying and board games. Wargamers recreate battles on the tabletop with toy soldiers, like a more complicated game of chess. Models range in height from 6mm to 28mm tall, with 15mm and 25mm being the most popular. There also is a growing interest in toy soldiers and military models, such as the 1/32 and 1/35 scale plastic soldiers from Conte, and Marx.
The most popular miniature wargames are fantasy and science fiction based, such as Warhammer, Warhammer 40K, Warmachine and The Lord of the Rings. World War II games such as Flames of War and Axis and Allies are new favorites. Other favorite historical periods include Napoleonics, the American Civil War, and ancients, such as Romans or Greeks. Other gamers enjoy miniature naval wargames, recreating battles like Trafalgar, Jutland and the Coral Sea.
Hobbyists research historical periods and paint their tiny soldiers in accurate uniforms. Others develop "historically realistic" rules sets or build scale battlefield terrain using model railroad techniques.
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Some of the bigger hobby companies are Games Workshop, which produces Warhammer, Wargames Foundry and Old Glory Miniatures. Wizards of the Coast produces several lines of pre-painted miniatures games, such as the Star Wars and Dungeons and Dragons miniatures games, and a historical game with pre-painted miniatures: The new Axis and Allies game. Wizkids produces a fantasy collectable miniatures game, such as the Mage Knight and Heroclick fantasy games, the science fiction games MechWarrior and Rocketmen, as well as the quasi-historical Pirates of the Spanish Main.
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