Sylphyre

On 9/28/2017 at 4:17 AM, kitsunebi77 said:

That looks pretty useful for certain applications.  Unfortunately I don't think doing full magazine scans would be one of them, unless you were only interested in capturing text.  Any color or skewing problems that would need correcting would only exist in the first place because it's a handheld scanner that would give different results based on how it was held and how the ambient lighting affected the page.  Way too random for consistently accurate results.  And even if it could accurately compensate for non-flat pages, it still couldn't scan the entire page, since part of every bound page is hidden in the gutter.  No matter how flat you make it, unless you remove the page from the spine, some of the image remains hidden.

No, sadly (for some), destroying the mag is going to remain the only way to get the best possible scans.  For me, two things help compensate for the loss of destroying a mag.

One: I get a little bit of extra space back in my closet.

Two: I like to think that every mag I scan is one less mag some scalper can overcharge for on eBay.  Books and magazines should be available for everyone to read and enjoy.  Leave eBay to the people who only want a physical collectible to put away somewhere and gather dust.

With the mind that not all crowdfunded ideals come true, they seem to address all those issues.  It has a light built in, so the lighting is standard across the board (no accounting for glare) and the little bits on the edge don't do enough for me to tear through my collection.  I suppose if someone's doing it at least it's only one copy though, you're right.

Whenever the thing gets in I'll let you all know how it turns out either way

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pup-your-connected-pocket-scanner-home#/

(Now with 100% more link!)

Holy crud I had no idea you guys are wrecking the magazines you scan! 

I've got one of these on order for the end of the year, and if it does what it says it will do, it digitally corrects for the natural curve of a non-flattened magazine while scanning and auto-fixing color/skewing.  I will post when I get it in to see how well it performs, but those poor poor magazines all getting shredded...