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

[Jean-Pierre Desrochers]

I too have a bunch of the following magazines:

Popular Electronics
Radio-Electronics
Electronics Now
Poptronics
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.

I forgot to mention this scanner accepts up to 8.5" X 14" sheets
and all types of smaller paper sizes to be scanned in a stack inserted
in the machine.

But this scanner is not cheap.. around $450.00US
To me it's worth it
J-Pierre