I have a largish dead-tree library/bookcase of about 1050 books (all catalogued digitally, with titles and ISBN numbers). I’m looking for a way to legally convert them to eBooks without incurring a totally unreasonably large cost, mainly because I will be travelling an awful lot over the next few years and I need many of them for reference. I live in Italy and bought most of them from Amazon.co.uk. For a while I was quite enthusiastic because Amazon.com offered a programme whereby eBook copies of purchased books could be had for little or nothing, but (as far as I know) this was never extended overseas. I’m left wondering whether there is a manner of doing this economically and legally, or whether I will be faced with having to abandon the idea, incur a massive expense to re-purchase eBook editions of everything, or go off the beaten track.
Assuming the denizens of HN to be a fairly literate lot, I assume at least somebody has faced this same problem before, and assuming the technical prowess of NH denizens, I assume at least somebody has made a reasonably proficient stab at solving this.