Hey Doom, would it be too much trouble for you to slap together a guide for scanning booklets?
Yes.
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Well, maybe not. I have never done it before and from what the people who have say, it's a huge pain in the ass. I think TheValeman and KaiserWAVE have done it. Maybe if they give me pointers I can.
Sorry to disappoint you Mr. Guide Authority

I've never scanned a manual.
TheValeman scanned several manuals and I think I read that
wshbrngr did as well. As far as I know they scanned every page at 300dpi, cleaned the images, put them all together again and converted them to a .pdf file. All in all a pretty time consuming process.
makeshiftknight, if you're good at taking out staples and putting them back without damaging anything, you might use
Doom's scanning guide for them, too. Without the staples you can fold them as flat as DVD covers so I guess it could work.