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Unfortunately it's a lot easier and quicker to scan a book if you remove the spine, since it's then just a bunch of pages that can be fed through an auto feeder. Proper book scanners that turn pages are slow and expensive.
I don't like the idea of destroying books, but it's certainly a lot less unsavoury to destroy a single copy to create a publicly available archive.
Not all, in fact probably the minority, of rare books have anything special about their binding. There's one reference book I've been looking for a copy of that was only published 20 years ago in paperback, but copies regularly sell for £150+ on ebay.
I was in that situation with a textbook costing about twice that. Ended up borrowing from the library and digitizing it myself using a camera mounted on the back of a hardwood chair with the book lying flat on the ground. In hindsight it would have been good with a glass plate to press the pages, but I unwarped the pages automatically using some open source software. In the end it turned out quite good, but probably spent 6 hrs or something on the ordeal.
don't destroy books; repurpose them for crafts.