[sdiy] Old electronics magazines... to PDF.. by yourself

Fri Dec 16 14:51:42 CET 2011

I too have a bunch of the following magazines:

Popular Electronics
Radio-Electronics
Electronics Now
Elektor
Circuit Cellar

I've  always been discouraged thinking
of scanning page by page these magazines..
But now I'm seriously considering buying the 
following multi-page recto-verso color scanner Scansnap S1500  Fujitsu:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqFbW4rcUv0

This scanner scans both sides of each pages
one after the other and put it in a PDF file in a snap!
It even ignores blank pages and skip them in the PDF file !

The only thing I'd have to do is get rid of
the magazine's glueded side bindings by removing it
with a sharp cutter of any kind.
Faster than scanning each page with a normal flat scanner..
Then placing the pages in the scanner who can
'theoritically' handle up to 50 pages.. but
reality shows not to exceed around 30 pages max at a time..
This is not a big thing to me.
But this scanner is not cheap.. around $450.00US

To me it's worth it
J-Pierre

 On Fri 16/12/11 00:53 , Dan Snazelle subjectivity at hotmail.com sent:
> Jeez....i thought i was doing good with my 75-89 elektors, complete
> electronotes, and 20 yrs of popular electronics
> 
> I just ordered a bunch of bytes from ebay
> 
> 
> I keep thinking someday ill replace magazines with a pdf tablet but i love
> real (old) magazines!!!Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Dec 15, 2011, at 6:47 PM, "Mike Gorman"  egorman at btinternet.com> wrote:
> > Like quite a few other people on this list, I
> also have collected magazines> for years, but perhaps I've gone that little bit
> further than most.> 
> > I have complete collections of most of the UK
> based electronics magazines,> including ETI, Practical Electronics, Hobby
> Electronics, Electronics &> Computing and Elektor. I have virtually complete
> collections of Maplin> Electronics and Everyday Electronics and over 50
> years of Wireless World. I> plan to fill out my collections of Practical
> Wireless and Radio &> Electronics Constructor to the same level in the
> near future.> 
> > I also have a virtually complete collection of
> Circuit Cellar and about 200> other American mags, like Radio Electronics,
> Electronics World, Popular> Electronics, etc.
> > 
> > On a more musical note, I have a complete
> collection of E&MM, Sound on Sound> and Computer Music as well as the majority of
> Music Technology, The Mix,> Future Music and most of Home & Studio
> Recording.> 
> > I can then add my collection of Computer (full
> sets of Byte, PCW, PC-Pro> Practical Computing, PC-Plus, etc.), Hi-Fi, Car,
> Woodwork and miscellaneous> other magazines to bring my current total to
> well in excess of 10,000> magazines (actually - probably closer to 11,000
> now).> 
> > I'm happy to help out with occasional scans of
> magazines and have a long> term plan to build a comprehensive website to
> hopefully re-present quite a> few of these old articles, if I can work out a
> way with the obvious> copyright holders.
> > 
> > If anyone is interested, I've also started
> compiling a list of interesting> Electro-Music projects and articles in a summary
> Excel spreadsheet. This is> very much a work in progress but is pretty
> complete for ETI and PE and about> 10 years of Elektor.
> > 
> > Regards
> > 
> > Mike
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl> [synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Batz
> Goodfortune> Sent: 15 December 2011 22:51
> > To: s
> ynth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Old electronics
> magazines> 
> > Y-ellow All.
> >         Out of interest, I have many circuits
> culled from the annals of > ETI, up on my decrepit and unkempt web site. In
> particular, reader > submitted gems. Stuff you'll no-longer find in
> the tissues. It's an > incomplete collection however. It was a
> thankless task and one I never got > back to.
> > 
> > However, I collected ETI, PE, EA and even AEM,
> right through the 80s and > part of the 90s. Including their off shoot
> publications on audio and > computing. I also have some older stuff dating
> back to the 1960s.> 
> > If there's something you desperately need,
> there's a better than small > chance I have it. Scanning it with my nice new
> shiny HP all-in-one piece of > crap might be another matter however. Last time
> I updated the driver, > everything but the printer stopped
> working.> 
> > But raid the web site as you see fit.
> > 
> > Hope this helps.
> > 
> > Be absolutely icebox.
> > 
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