Digitising Monotype stuff?

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Hi there people, recently I got interested in some phototype era Monotype stuff, like The New Series span of the recorder and such.

Well I think I asked here about it before but I was in search of The Monotype Recorder XI Robin Nicholas edition.

I found a listing for it on abebooks and thought about asking the seller to digitise it, and they said they could so so for the price of the book, though they also stated is not something they commonly do.

This made me think about if doing this in more of a large scale would be possible.

You know, trying to make a collaborative archive by people funding themselves the digitisation of old stuff and having all this in a website.

What do you all think?