I thought the Ramanujan notebooks are already available as nice printed books from >Springer.
--It seems Plouffe's claim they cost $1000 was a slight exaggeration. Amazon will sell you part 5 of the notebooks (printed by Springer) for $183, so assuming the other parts same price, that is $915. If there is sales tax that'll indeed reach just about $1000.
Would the library even let you near the original notebooks, much less handle them with your greasy fingers (you could wear gloves), and open them up and press them against a scanner?
--my point was you could save money versus Springer by flying to Cambridge and copying them yourself. Of course, my further point was, if "publishers" sell books for more than the cost of flying yourself across the world to scan author's work, the meaning of the world "publication" may require revision, and the entire moral/econo/logical justification for the existence of "copyright law" would seem to be a crock of shit.