The county board of each county shall from time to time, as may be necessary, provide the recorder of such county with well-bound and properly ruled books, and where photostating, optical disk storage, or microfilming is used, the recorder shall likewise be furnished all such equipment (such as computers, printers, and scanners) and supplies necessary to the execution of the duties of the office. They may procure books of printed forms to be filled up in the recording of any instrument, when the same may be done without interlineation or erasure, and shall in all cases, when practicable, procure the necessary index and abstract books with printed headings. The cost of such books, equipment and supplies shall be chargeable against the surplus fees of the office, or paid by the county.