Amazon Kindle Convert Turns Paper Books into Ebooks, If You're Patient

Got books to digitize and plenty of patience? Amazon's Kindle Convert software will let you scan them at home.

As spotted by The Ebook Reader, Kindle Convert is a $50 PC application that turns printed pages into Kindle e-books. It should work with most scanners, provided they support at least 300 dpi, 8-bit depth for greyscale, and 24-bit depth for color.

The software includes automatic alignment and text editing capabilities, but also preserves the book's original font and formatting, along with any handwritten notes, autographs and images.