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I picked up a collection of several hundred byte magazines the other day going back to 1984.

• jacquesm 7y ago
  That's worth it for the cover art alone.
• zozbot234 7y ago
  Did you check if all of them are on the IA already? The archive collection seems to have some weird gaps where random issues appear to be missing, while others have been scanned and uploaded multiple times. The metadata are also not perfect for some reason, so it's hard to search for an issue in the whole collection.
  • pronoiac 7y ago
    I think I have a physical copy of one with a bad scan; suggestions on scanning? I'm in San Francisco.
    • zozbot234 7y ago
      These days you can "scan" magazines and books with great results simply by taking photos of the pages with a high-quality digital camera. (This is a method of "scanning" which used to be reserved for rare and valuable artifacts, but has now become quite feasible in general.) There's even software like Hugin that will help merge multiple photos of a page into a single image, while correcting for distortion.
      • ghaff 7y ago
        >"great results" Sort of. You can get a pretty functional copy by just opening it up on your dining room table. (Though magazines are more likely to stay wide open than books are.) An evenly lit and flat to the spine copy probably requires some sort of copy stand. At times I've thought of buying or making one but concluded it wasn't worth the effort to me.