Is it still crazy to scan 1000 magazines?

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Czar

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
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Originally posted by: Aquaman
Originally posted by: Czar
Aquaman,
since this has been going on forever, did you post a picture of the magazine pile?

Not yet Czar........ maybe when I finish the whole thing.

Cheers,
Aquaman

hehe, a sight worth seeing :D
 

Aquaman

Lifer
Dec 17, 1999
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Originally posted by: Czar
Originally posted by: Aquaman
Originally posted by: Czar
Aquaman,
since this has been going on forever, did you post a picture of the magazine pile?

Not yet Czar........ maybe when I finish the whole thing.

Cheers,
Aquaman

hehe, a sight worth seeing :D

I hope I get the Canon sponsorship :)

Cheers,
Aquaman
 

Aquaman

Lifer
Dec 17, 1999
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Just over 75% done and If I do 1 a day I will finish by Oct 10th......... Most likely I will finish sooner.

Cheers,
Aquaman
 

Jeff7181

Lifer
Aug 21, 2002
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Originally posted by: Aquaman
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
How much hard drive space is this project taking up?

So far around 16 GB :)

Lots of Back ups also :)

Cheers,
Aquaman

Nice... I started doing that with Car Craft magazines and quit after about 10. It got extremely monotonous. So instead I just looked through them and found the articles I was interested in and started scanning those... then that got annoying too so I just threw out 3 or 4 years of them.
 

bret

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Mar 14, 2001
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so thats where you get the name aquaman.. interesting.


and do you have a fireplace? thats where you should keep them
 

Aquaman

Lifer
Dec 17, 1999
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Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Originally posted by: Aquaman
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
How much hard drive space is this project taking up?

So far around 16 GB :)

Lots of Back ups also :)

Cheers,
Aquaman

Nice... I started doing that with Car Craft magazines and quit after about 10. It got extremely monotonous. So instead I just looked through them and found the articles I was interested in and started scanning those... then that got annoying too so I just threw out 3 or 4 years of them.


You can do it :)

Cheers,
Aquaman
 

Yossarian

Lifer
Dec 26, 2000
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once this project is complete your life will have no meaning. it'll be like when inigo montoya kills the guy with 6 fingers.
 

Kelemvor

Lifer
May 23, 2002
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What's the total file size now of all your PDFs or GIFs or whatever you're scanning them into?