Cooking your own books

By Ken Y-N ( October 26, 2011 at 01:01) ? Filed under Entertainment, Lifestyle, Polls

goo Research, in conjunction with the electronic magazine OnDeck, took a look at cooking your own books, an expression in Japanese which refers to the activity of scanning your books to an electronic format.

Demographics

There were two distinct samples; first, the OnDeck readership was surveyed between the 12th and 20th of September 2011, with 294 people replying, then the goo Research online monitor group was surveyed over the 12th and 13th of October 2011, with 1,063 completing the survey.

As well as doing the scanning yourself at home, there are a number of companies that will do it for you. You send them a box of books, and they will scan them in and return them to you, but only after guillotining off the spine to prevent you reselling the paper editions. This service operates in a bit of a legal black hole ? it may be illegal, but no-one has taken a case to court yet, as far as I am aware. Here?s a video of how to do it at home:

Research results

Q1: Have you cooked your own books? (Sample size=294+1,063)

?	OnDeck N=294	goo Research N=1,063
Yes (to SQs)	44%	6%
No, but interested in doing so	38%	35%
No, and not interested in doing so	18%	59%

Q1SQ1: How many books have you cooked? (Sample size=those who have cooked)

?	OnDeck	goo Research
One to five books	37%	74%
Six to ten books	20%	6%
Eleven to fifty books	17%	6%
Fifty-one to one hundred books	11%	8%
Over one hundred books	15%	6%

Q1SQ2: Why do you cook your own books? (Sample size=OnDeck readers who have cooked)

Want to make space in my bookshelves	63%
Want to be able to read them from various different devices	56%
There?s no official digital version	43%
Want to be able to perform searches to find particular articles	15%
Difficult to get hold of a digital version	11%
Enjoy the process of scanning	2%
Other	12%

For goo Research panellists who had cooked their own books, the top three were in the same order as for OnDeck readers, but the percentages differed slightly at 65%, 46% and 46%.

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