Magazine Collection
February 4th, 2011
Back in September, I posted about a side project I stared working on; Magazine Archiving. After almost 5 months of working on scanning my back log of magazine off and on, I finally have everything scanned.
Tonight I scanned and saved the March 2011 issue of Model Railroader to PDF, the last and most current magazine to scan.
In total I have about 120 issues of Model Railroader, N-Scale Railroading, N-Scale Magazine, Trains, and Model Railroad Hobbyist in PDF format now. Yay!
I’ve been contemplating something like this. I assume you’re essentially destroying the magazines (cutting the pages out)? That’s the part I’m having trouble with, I can’t bring myself to destroy my collection!
Heh, yeah. I ended up deciding that I’m only gonna keep the last 1-2 years of paper issues on my shelf. After that they get tossed.
So pretty much everything that was 2009 and older (2009 – 2005) got cut in single pages so I could feed them through my scanner’s page feeder. This was mainly to help get through the backlog of 100+ magazines.
2010 and newer (including now arriving magazines) I scan one page at a time on the flatbed just by flipping the pages, so those magazines will still be in their original condition.
Great idea. I lots of RR magazines. So Shaun your not scanning the whole magazine in just the cover and certain articles that you find interesting? If you did the whole magazine that would be a time consuming method. I have been busy with work. But I have checked out cannon scanners the only scan as I think for my purposes a mid grade 20ppm scanner would be the solution rather than a all in one copy, scan , fax. What are your thoughts on the scanner speeds and using a dedicated one rather than a all in one.
Thanks,
George
Only on my oldest magazines did I flip through and scan just the articles I wanted. Starting with 2007 (I think) I began scanning the whole magazine. It takes about 45 minutes or so to scan a full magazine.
As for the scanner, doesn’t really matter how fast it is cause you still have to manually flip the page (unless you cut the pages and use the feeder.)
Dedicated Vs. All-In-One… just a personal preference really on what you want. If I saw an all-in-one for the same cost as a flatbed dedicated scanner, I’d probably get the all-in-one.
Shaun, I am looking Epsom GT 50 commercial grade duplex scanner, which can scan 20 pages one side a minute or 40+ back/front sides a minute. The most tedious thing for me would be the actual tearing up and cutting apart the magazine articles themselves (time consuming) as I might get sidetracked reading articles.
George