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We did this before our last move and were really glad in the end. Fujitsu Scan Snap (the more expensive one, and glad we went with that rather than the cheap one), had books guillotined at Kinko's, fed them through one book at a time.

OCR works great, actually. This is especially awesome for cookbooks since you can just search by ingredient that you have and don't know what to do with.

We use the same system for bills, etc, which is also handy since you can just search that Dropbox folder for whatever payment you're querying, and it pops up.

I would also agree that it's worth purging as many books as you can first, probably over a few rounds of purging. We did that over 3 moves and went from thousands of books to around 100, and now only have a very small handful of favourite cookbooks.

Wouldn't any paper-based art get damaged from steam from the shower?

I love the way these look, especially the first one, and was thinking of trying to do something similar to create a hiding place for our bikes. But as everyone mentioned, it seems a bit unstable-- I usually lean on the wall while reading or watching movies, would a free standing shelf be ok for that, even attached to the wall?