Comment by Barbing

Here’s a clip of The Internet Archive’s nondestructive process [39 seconds]:

https://nitter.net/internetarchive/status/135809098218971955...

  6 Feb 2021

  At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book. 

  We never destroy a book by cutting off its binding. Instead, we digitize it the hard way--one page at a time.

Wonder the additional cost to add automated page turning. More than Bezos can afford, impoverished chap he is.