It is important to know that non destructive scanning devices exist in, say, most law libraries. You just can’t do it *cheaply* because you need someone to turn pages.
Notorious yellow cari don't know what to do with my void orb knowledge that cutting the binding off of books is one of the two ways to digitize them and the other one is uncommon enough that it is specifically called "non-destructive book scanning" and involves massive How It's Made contraptions