Archiving The Hard Way

[Liberator8200]

Bill Loguidice is working on a video game documentary. One of his interviewees provided him with many issues of Toy & Hobby World and Leisure Time Electronics from 1980 & '81 to archive. The catch? He only had a week, couldn't damage them, and they were too big to fit in his scanner. So what did he do? He took photos of over 630 pages! You can read the blog entry, which includes a link to all the images on Flickr. Perhaps we should inquire about archiving them here?

[triverse]

I asked Bill Loguidice over on the Atari Age forums about it.  He never sent over the contact information for the owner of the material for me to get in contact with.

Edit:

If someone were to get one of these scanners, Plustek  OpticBook 3600 you could scan that stuff without an damage.

http://www.plustek.com/product/book3600.asp

[KevInCal]

Hmm, you know, when you think about it, taking good macro photos of mags like that is a heck of a lot easier than scanning! Doesn't look quite as professional I suppose, but man, takes forever to scan and edit, plus it messes up the mags... :(