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

Fri Dec 16 16:32:34 CET 2011

I've used a more professional version of the type of scanner for work
(scanning invoices and contracts) in the past and it was excellent. I plan
on borrowing it when I sacrifice 8 years of old Practical Electronics for a
complete scan.

I like the look of this though:

http://www.ionaudio.com/products/details/book-saver

It has been a bit of vapourware so far, as it was announced early this year
and still hasn't made it to market, but it would allow scanning of magazines
without removing the bindings. If it doesn't materialise as a real product
soon, I look at making one of my own - using a couple of digital cameras.

Regards

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl
[mailto:synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Jean-Pierre
Desrochers
Sent: 16 December 2011 13:52
To: Synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Subject: [sdiy] Old electronics magazines... to PDF.. by yourself

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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