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Imagine if there was a small tool you could download from Retromags.com that will check the MD5 checksum of your files against the official Retromags.com database that will allow you to easily rename your files to the official standards, or find out what you're missing, or find out what pages of what issues are missing all easily within 1 small application?

This is one of the ideas I've been wanting to speak with E-Day over the phone about. It's one of many ideas I've had for this site but there's a huge problem: there are no accepted standards of magazine preservation. Retromags.com could be the leader of magazine preservation but it's being held back by emotions and fighting and arguing.

There is a lot to discuss if the real goal of this website is preservation as stated in the Thank-You pages (x-x-retromags1600-x-x.jpg). One of the issues right now is should we care who scanned it? Should we care what the source is? Triverse is one of those who thinks that matters. I don't. As long as the scan meets all of the standards, I don't see how the source matters at all. I've been doing research on digital preservation in general and the idea of source and credit and who scanned and edited what never seems to come up.

I think the Project Tracker needs to be deleted and in place of it, something like CLRMame Pro. I don't think it'd be too difficult to create and you don't need to host everything on this site, just a standard, accepted database that's current. That would be incredible for collectors and incredible for preservation period.

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