BETWEEN THE LAKES GROUP LLC

We hand-scan our books and ephemera, page by page, and work hard to preserve the original book in the process. We scan at high resolutions, usually either 300 dpi or 600 dpi, so that we lose no detail either in the printed word or in pictures. Our competitors actually brag about how many pages they can shove through their high-speed scanners per minute, while we think in terms of how many minutes it can take to get a good scan of a single particularly difficult page. After scanning, we individually adjust the images of every page for the clearest possible result. We check the pagination to make sure that all the pages are there and correctly numbered. After the files that make up our CD-ROMs are complete and tested, we have a "beta test" process in which a second person (and sometimes a third person as well) reviews every single page for completeness, accuracy, clarity, and overall image quality.