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For me, it was the digitizing phase. Tearing apart a yearbook, page by page, and feeding it through a scanner? Taking a picture of something you got as a gift a
by kyleowen212 14y ago
For me, it was the digitizing phase. Tearing apart a yearbook, page by page, and feeding it through a scanner? Taking a picture of something you got as a gift and donating the actual thing?
Sometimes an item exists just to be itself. A yearbook doesn't have any value if it isn't yours, or if you don't invest it with some. If you decide you don't want something, fine – but it seems very strange to keep around a formless simulacra of it.
- wpietri 14y agoI digitized a bunch of stuff as well, and was very pleased with it. Objects were keys to memories for me, so throwing away the object felt like throwing away the memory. Looking through the photos makes me really happy, and I don't miss not having the physical objects.
- susanhi 14y agoDigitizing was probably my favorite part of this process. I actually look at my photos a lot more now than I ever did before when they were stuck in photo albums because they're in folders in my computer now. And the same goes for my old papers, cards, etc. It's not that I look at these items very often now, but I never looked at them before.
- jamesrcole 14y agoWith photos and paper based mementos, I found the physical copies just sat in a box, and were (almost) never looked at. Scanned copies are a lot easier to 'take out' and browse through.
- gizzlon 14y agoSame here.. pictures of physical things are a very poor replacement for the actual thing.
- noonespecial 14y agoI lost my HS yearbooks before I could digitize them. Its freaking impossible to find another of those things. A fujitsu sheet feeding scanner has been the single most liberating device I've ever owned. When you cut apart something like a yearbook to scan it, its almost a religious experience. In faith, you sacrifice the book's corporeal form so that its essence can ascend into the cloud and live forever.