Seeing as how I have experience OCRing stuff (probably a lot more than anybody else you would run into), if you want, the book project could be handed off to the next person (haven't started yet), and I could start OCRing the articles.
If you want to do that, post here or drop me an email, letting me know what format(s) you want, such as PDF, Word, txt, etc. I'm pretty sure you want to just archive the text itself in rtf format or something like that, but secondarily, it is quite easy to OCR the text while leaving the images in the articles intact, if you want to preserve the actual pages themselves in PDF format.
Like I said, let me know what you think of the proposition.