ION Audio, LLC is probably best known for its specialty in making those all-in-one, plug-and-play, and affordable-priced device that enhance your Audio/Video, home entertaining, gaming, and computer experience. Now, ION Audio has used its digital conversion know-how to make a device that can scan a 200-page paper book and convert it into e-Reader format (digital file format) in only 15 minutes.

The ION Audio’s Book Saver Book Scanner will allow you to quickly digitize your huge library of printed magazines or books for archiving on computer or to take on the road without weighing down your suitcase or backpack.

Many of my vinyl albums have never even made it to CD release, let alone become available in digital format for download from one of the many online stores. Therefore, it was with some relief that technology arrived that allowed us to record high quality digital copies of our treasured rarities and pop them onto our media player. One of those leading the charge was ION Audio, who released record players with a USB cable that could be connected to a computer for handy digitization.

Now, ION Audio is offering the same conversion convenience to owners of literary tomes. The ION Audio Book Saver consists of an angled cradle, onto which is placed the printed novel, textbook or periodical requiring digital conversion. An upper frame is sporting two cameras – one pointing at each page and each having a built-in flash – is placed on top of the publication in the cradle. An image of each page is recorded at the press of a button, then the camera frame is lifted, the page turned and the whole process repeated until the last page is reached.

The digital conversion is stored directly onto an SD card, for onward viewing on an e-Reader (tablet) or archiving to a computer. Whereas other devices that offer similar digitization can take up to seven seconds to scan one page, the ION Audio Book Saver is said to capture its two-page digital representation in just one second!

We were suitably impressed by the ION Audio Book Saver, and are looking forward to its forthcoming release. The ION Audio Book Saver is tagged for the retail price of $149.