Just ordered a lighting kit that includes 2 lights with stands and a light box with different color backdrops. I tried doing a bit of this before for my website, but the light ended up crappy. Hopefully this will remedy that.
First project is to take photos of all of the pages of this book my sister and I found at my parents' old house when we were helping them move (which they are still doing).
Book is a bio of Abraham Lincoln published in 1865.
It has great illustrations and a minute by minute account of his pulse after he was shot at Ford's Theatre. The book is in horrible condition, so there is no way to scan it w/o completely destroying it. I want to take a photo of each page and post at least some of it for Lincoln's birthday next Tuesday. But I will not have the light kit by then.