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Preparing for the Incoming Computer Shopper Tsunami — June 5, 2023

There’s no way for me to know where your awareness starts with all
this, so let’s just start at the beginning.

Computer Shopper was a hell of a magazine. I [8]wrote a whole essay
about it, which can be summarized as “this magazine got to be very
large, very extensive, and probably served as the unofficial ‘bible’ of
the state of hardware and software to the general public throughout the
1980s and 1990s.” While it was just a pleasant little computer tabloid
when it started in 1979, it quickly grew to a page count that most
reasonable people would define as “intimidating”.

In a world that saw hundreds of magazines and thousands of newsletters
come and go about technology and computer-related subjects, Computer
Shopper was its own thing entirely. Not only thick as a brick, but
clearly opened to anyone who waved cash and covering vendors who were
selling computer components down to the individual part level. You
might have a good set of ads in PC Magazine but to browse over price
lists of capacitors, power supplies and wiring, the massive monthly
Computer Shopper issue was going to be your go-to.

There were two other aspects to Computer Shopper that has given it a
halo of intrigue and positive memory: First, the paper was incredibly
cheap, newspaper tabloid level by some eyes. This seeming disposability
infers a weird sort of honesty about the advertising contents – it is
what it is, it represents what the actual pricing is, and what’s
actually available. The lack of pure slickness in the printing process
was a baggage of “look, I’m lucky if we survive another month and this
is the straight up price we’re offering” across the many hundreds of
ads in a given issue.

But second, was the full-bore willingness to seemingly absorb anything
computer adjacent into its pages. Pre-fab computers and commercially
available software was listed inside, sure. But if you were selling
tech clothing, clips, floppies, tapes, plugs, paper, switches and
accessories… you had a home there as well. It gave a truly manic and
freewheeling melee to the affair, and for those of us who wanted to
know more than the standard 20-30 software packages everyone was
buying, or to think about smacking together a bunch of parts to get a
mutant-powerful system up and running, this was the place.

To a smaller set of us, the BBS Listings in the back were also a very
notable aspect. BBS operators across all the spectrum of cliques and
locations thought of Computer Shopper as the BBS yellow pages, the
phone book of the online, for almost its entire run. You flipped to the
back, found your area code or state, and downright eye-watering levels
of BBS listings were waiting for you. Inaccurate? Sometimes. But a
truly unique assemblage of what was.

That catches us all up to what Computer Shopper was. Like many
print-based computer magazines, Computer Shopper grew in size into the
many of hundreds of pages, some greater than 800. It thrived in the
world before the World Wide Web took hold, and once you could do daily
updates of parts and prices at various websites, the months-lag in
printing schedule and the lack of responsiveness compared to websites
made it lose curry, favor, and eventually pages. It died a quiet death
in 2009, becoming a barely interesting site and then an uninteresting
zombie.

Still, it was a heck of a run.

People often ask me the same basic questions regarding old computer
history and access to it. One of them is to discuss potential holy
grails, possibilities of where some effort might be afforded to acquire
potentially lost information or artifacts before they’re gone.

A common go-to for me was Computer Shopper, because it’s a perfect
storm of absolute fascination and completely intolerable amounts of
barriers towards digitizing it into something readable online.
* It’s fantastically huge. If you scan in an issue, however you do
it, you’re talking hundreds of pages for that month, all of them
requiring babysitting to ensure they got through.
* The cheap, cheap paper is a nightmare to run through a scanner –
either a flatbed-based misery or a sheet-fed scanner that’s one
molecule of damage away from crunching pages up.
* The gutters (space between the spine and the information on the
page) is offensively small – millimeters where there should be a
half-inch. Especially towards the 1990s era, the instructions to
advertisers about layout clearly didn’t make many bones about
informing folks about margins. This means the books have to be
split apart, a despicable sin that strikes against the heart of the
pure.
* These myriad, no-gutter, cheaply-printed pages are both tabloid
size and never considered text too small to allow. This means that
not only is the page size not going to fit in 95% of the consumer
scanners out there, but they’re going to need to be scanned at the
highest level you can, to not miss anything. The page size,
digitized, is going to be offensively huge.

So, the prospect this would ever happen was basically zero. You needed
someone who had the time, inclination, and support to do what was going
to be one of the more painful scanning projects extant.

It turned out to be me.

So, there I was whining online about how it was 2023 and nobody seemed
to be scanning in Computer Shopper and we were going to be running into
greater and greater difficulty to acquire and process them
meaningfully, and I finally, stupidly said that if we happened on a
somewhat-complete collection, I’d figure out how to do it.

And then an ebay auction came up that seemed to fit the bill.

Out in Ohio, someone decided to sell nearly 200 issues of Computer
Shopper for a few thousand bucks.

It’s important to understand the usual per-issue prices for Computer
Shopper, and that usual per-issue price can get as high as $50 an
issue. Obviously, at some large scale, this becomes an untenably large
price. But in this case, they were being sold for about $13 an issue,
which is not zero, but somewhere in the realm of manageable: About
$3,000 for the lot.

Now, I’m not going to have $3,000 to throw around like that. So I put
the challenge out there: If people get together and give me $3,000,
I’ll buy this lot and scan it it.

It hit goal in about 3 hours.

As you might have figured out, delivery/mail was not an option. To make
that happen, I reached out for a volunteer, and a few people came
forward, including Wes Kennedy, who made this his main project for a
few days. He’d left one job and was starting another a week later, and
“picking up all the issues, packaging them carefully, and putting them
in the mail to Jason” became his fun-cation. He deserves all the kudos
for this.
When 14 large boxes arrived, they included all the issues, put inside
large paper envelopes and wrapped in blue plastic that definitely
didn’t look like cocaine to the storage unit guys I cruised past.
So all of the issues were now safely within my control.
One might be inclined to say “Well, that’s only half the problem.” and
you’d be off, because it’s actually less than a quarter of the problem.
Acquisition, after all, was just money – buying issues in bulk and
ending up with a good amount of them was just a case of assembling some
cash.

No, it was definitely the scanning that was going to be the big ….
issue.

If not obvious, the pages of this tabloid-sized periodical are not just
big, they’re over the bounds of pretty much every scanner out there, at
least in the consumer space. (There’s plenty of large-format scanners
past the $5,000 range, and they’re also gargantuan affairs, meant to
handle blueprints and posters.)
But I did find one commercial scanner that could do the work: A Fujitsu
fi-7480 wide-size sheet-feed scanner, which tops out at about $3,500.
I’ll simply say a kind anonymous donor bought it outright so I wouldn’t
have to crowdfund for it, and for that I’m eternally grateful.

Here’s what dealing with that process looks like, with the scanner
software (Vuescan) set carefully to neutral and pulling in the massive
pages through the fi-7480:

…which brings up the situation involving the pages.

Now, about 12 years ago, I really [9]raked someone over the coals for
destroying copies of BYTE magazine to scan them. He was not happy about
this at all, and there’s a chance he may have stopped his project just
not wanting to deal with such criticism. I hope not, but I do stand by
the fact that he indicated he was immediately disposing of the pages
after scanning them, which meant any mistakes or oversights were
permanent. (At one point, he mentioned having to fish a page out of the
trash when he discovered he’d skipped it.)
At that point, I made a declaration of my standards for
debinding/pulling apart a magazine to scan it:

“IF I have a document or paper set that requires some level of
destruction to scan properly AND IF I have three copies of it AND IF
there is no currently-available digital version of the document AND IF
there is a call or clamor for this document set THEN AND ONLY THEN I
will split the binding and scan at a very high resolution and
additionally apply OCR and other modern-day miracles to the resulting
document so that the resulting item is, if not greater than the
original, more useful to the world.”

…I should have added an OR.

“…OR if there’s very little chance of anyone ever being able to
assemble issues to scan in the foreseeable future.”
Because that’s rapidly what was happening with the Computer Shoppers.
$13 an issue is perhaps quite a bit, but people want even more for
individual issues and it will be a bit of a stretch to actually acquire
them all. So, even though I don’t own 3 copies personally, I also know
the other two potential copies are passing among collectors at this
point, so they’re being held, in some way, in trust. It’s my hope that
I’ll eventually have a chance to do this work for all the issues, but
until then, I work with what I got.

Debinding, the taking apart of a bound issue of a magazine to turn it
into a stack of papers to scan in, turns out to be a process. A
painful, time consuming, involved process. One which I knew would be
involved but not as involved as it has definitely turned out to be.

Luckily, people have come before me. [10]There is a rather beautiful
documentation out there, about the best practices in debinding
magazines, from Retromags. They walk through the pros and cons, the
potential issues, the considerations while doing it, and the most
common pitfalls that will befell your project if you don’t stay on top
of them. I read this like the Book of Life before setting off on
dealing with Computer Shoppers, because their “how to ski” primer was
going to be critical as I skied backwards down a double-black-diamond
slope of these bible-sized monsters.
In this case, I have to use a heat gun, aiming them at the glued issues
of Computer Shopper, warming them up until the glue starts to become
slightly liquid and then carefully pulling the pages apart from each
other, placing them on a large table I’m working on. If the glue comes
too close to the pages after I pull them apart, it actually sticks them
back again. It’s a huge mess, and with hundreds of pages in a typical
issue, hours of work.

There are banger groups out there working tirelessly to debind
magazines, scan them in carefully, fix any issues with the looks, and
upload them to various locations. One of them is [11]Gaming Alexandria
and it’s been a pleasure to fall in with them and discuss the
nitty-gritty of this process. They’re scanning in obscure periodicals
at scale and they know what they’re up to.

In fact, we’ve made a deal, where I’m just focusing on the “Raw Scans”,
and these raws will go to them for post-processing, creating a more
readable or functional set of final readable versions of Computer
Shopper for people to appreciate. The Raws will always be available, of
course – 600dpi TIFF files scanned neutrally of the original pages,
placed together in mothra-sized .ZIP files that number up into the many
gigabytes, for people to pull down when needed.

A scanned page of a typical issue looks like this (with a little size
reduction for this essay):

You can see immediately the difficulties and intricacies of this
project.

Like I indicated, there was very little care for margins, and none for
minimum size of text. Computer Shopper advertisers did whatever they
wanted, however they wanted, and into newsprint, which further made
things whacky because bleed is a major issue, pulling the other side’s
ink into the current one. And all of this on a massive piece of paper –
so in total, the original TIFF file of this image is a full-on 20
megabytes – and this issue has over 400 pages.

And before I forget to mention… I did a test scan with an issue that I
had two copies of, to work out any major bugs and problems. And one
major problem was that there was a roller at the top of the feed
scanner meant to separate a stack of pages into single ones and feed
them in properly. Well, that roller grips the page so tightly, it
started to pick up ink and put it on later pages, leaving streaks on
the page. A quick browse through the service manual, and I had to
remove that roller entirely. This means that I have to feed the pages
in, one by one, since otherwise it’ll stick them together and jam.

Through all of this, we’re talking hours of work to do a single issue,
and I have to do it a couple hundred times at least. This is going to
be quite an epic task… which is, again, why we’re down to me doing it
because the combination of cost, time and effort leaves almost nobody
else who’d be in a position to be able to do, much less want to.

We did one issue, [12]February 1986, “all the way through”. I debinded
it, cropped it, scanned it, handed it to Gaming Alexandria to process,
got it processed, and then put it on Internet Archive, resulting in
three sets of images: The Raw Scans, a “Readable” version and an
“Aesthetic” version.

The “Readable” version has been heavily processed and contrasted. It
makes it very easy to read a page because it has a really nice
dependable color setup for it:

Contrasted with the “Aesthetic” version, that looks more like you would
expect the newsprint and bleed-through original to look:

I personally prefer the “Aesthetic” – it brings me back to the way
things were when I would buy Computer Shoppers at the local Microcenter
and scour them for information and inspiration. But a researcher, and
more importantly an Optical Character Recognizer prepping things for
searches by researchers, will much prefer working with the Readable
version.

Now, Here Comes The Pitch.

So, I live here now.

For the next however-long-it-takes, I’ll be debinding issues, doing
careful scans of them, then putting the resulting piles of pages into
baggies and sending them into cold storage for permanent holding,
awaiting the next time they might have use, or to redo a problematic
scan. That’s happening. I’m just going to be on this all year, when I
can.

But this effort of mine is rather meaningless unless there are real
humans and smart scripts going over what’s being produced.

By a back of the napkin calculation, there will be at least 100,000 and
more likely 150,000+ pages of Computer Shopper issues scanned during
this project. There’s going to be a lot of them, and they’re going to
be jammed full of information, imagery, embarrassment and glory.

I really hope that a group of people, together or separately, start
using this bounty to rip out BBS listings, find trends in pricing and
nomenclature, in tracking down humble beginnings and finding other
amazing tidbits throughout computing history.

It’s nice to drop 400-800 pages at once into an item, but unless I get
some of those nerds out there scouring the pages for interesting
things, it’s just me scanning into a void.

If you know people will be interested, help them become aware. And if
you see something interesting, bring it out and make it part of
sharing, wherever you want to.

This will be an incredible amount of work. Folks threw thousands of
dollars into acquisitions of hardware and paper and I’m going to blast
a lot of my personal time into scanning these.

Make it worth it.

Addendum:

This entry got a lot of attention. Two questions arose, and I’ll answer
them both here:

Are There Missing Issues?

Yes, there are. Here’s the list. If people want to donate or buy good
quality copies for me, mail me at [email protected]. Here’s the
missing issues as far as I can tell:
* Everything before November 1983
* 1984: January, October, November
* 1985: October
* 1986: December
* 1988: June, November
* 1989: April
* 1994: April, May, August, November
* 1995: February, March
* 1996: April, May, June
* 1997: July, September
* 1998: January, May
* 1999: April, July, August

If people send them to me, I’ll take them off this list. So if this
list is here, I’m still missing them.

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35 Comments

1. [20]Kirkland says:
[21]June 5, 2023 at 3:49 am
I second how awesome Hubz at Gaming Alexandria is. I worked with
him a bit on his old scanning guide before dropping out to work on
my SNES and PS2 manual scans. If they are helping with processing
scans, I should see if they are up to fixing my PS1 raws- editing
is slowing progress down.
I collected Computer Shoppers throughout the 80s and 90s- my uncle
sold computers when I was a kid and I built easily 50+ systems as a
sideline during my college years. Every month I would dig through
the Computer Shopper looking for deals and tracking prices. I think
I had about 12 feet of them stacked on my bookshelves before the ex
cleaned house and chucked them all.
[22]Reply
2. [23]Trevor Edwards says:
[24]June 5, 2023 at 5:04 am
Godspeed, man!
I remember sitting in the back of a local used bookstore scouring
the pages of Computer Shopper back issues when I was a kid. Great
times!
[25]Reply
3. Peter says:
[26]June 5, 2023 at 5:59 am
This is awesome.
[27]Reply
4. Carlos says:
[28]June 5, 2023 at 6:59 am
Incredible work there, as always Jason. Thank you and Gaming
Alexandria (and other groups interested in preserving print
history)
[29]Reply
5. marianek says:
[30]June 5, 2023 at 7:38 am
What else to say, Thank You!
Such magazines, frequently discarded initially, now are saving
everyone who want to assemble computer from some specific time
span. So that’s not only a “window” to the history.
And, if the de-binding is done specific way, it can be re-bound.
The heat-melting glue is the best thing here as pages can be
re-glued back. The polivinyl glue requiring chemistry to
disassemble is worse, but the re-binding will work when done like
bookbinder does.
[31]Reply
6. [32]sound.and.vision says:
[33]June 5, 2023 at 8:51 am
great read, some useful tips here as someone who has a number of
automotive and car magazines which can also be difficult to scan
in. good luck with the project 😀
[34]Reply
7. [35]Dan Q says:
[36]June 5, 2023 at 9:17 am
Not all heroes wear capes.
[37]Reply
+ phuzz says:
[38]June 7, 2023 at 10:46 am
Although Jason does strike me as the sort of person who would
wear a cape.
[39]Reply
8. [40]Hanan Cohen says:
[41]June 5, 2023 at 10:38 am
I just purchased a scanner for my project and chose a smaller one
than yours but from the same series – Fujitsu fi-8150. I chose it
for it’s mechanics, not for it’s electronics. It “eats” EVERYTHING.
From thin pages to conference badges. I have spent a few days with
it and I am in love.
[42]Reply
9. [43]Digital Mark says:
[44]June 5, 2023 at 2:22 pm
I’ve been trawling the completed couple issues for articles I’m
interested in, gonna be pulling out pages for subsets to upload
later; mostly non-DOS/Windows compilers and such.
It’s kind of hilarious that this, that we treated like disposable
trash at the time, is such a useful historical record. Great
project!
[45]Reply
10. Steve Stroh says:
[46]June 5, 2023 at 3:21 pm
One of the gems of CS was Stan Vein’s microcomputer history column,
that was titled “Whatever Happened to… (insert name of company,
product, etc.”. That was a great, informative read.
[47]Reply
11. Steve Stroh says:
[48]June 5, 2023 at 3:25 pm
I was mentioning this daunting project to my wife, especially the
heat gun technique and she had heard of an alternate technique –
freeze the magazine and the glue binding becomes brittle enough to
pull the pages apart.
Was glad to hear you’re using a sheet feeder instead of a flatbed –
that will make it a little easier and more efficient.
[49]Reply
12. [50]Syeed Ali says:
[51]June 5, 2023 at 3:39 pm
Do also note the number of hours an issue takes, because some
people calculate that into dollar value of your time.
[52]Reply
13. [53]Michael Clark says:
[54]June 5, 2023 at 5:07 pm
Wow, very cool. I need to dredge out from my memory when my BBS was
active. It would be very cool to run some scripts on the rise and
fall of BBSes based on the directory in those thousands of pages. A
fun weekend project!
[55]Reply
14. Liam Busey says:
[56]June 6, 2023 at 2:11 am
What a treasure. I’m in awe. I have but 3 from the mid to early
’90s. They are a window into a time past.
You do us all a great service in this.
[57]Reply
15. Ben Bradley says:
[58]June 6, 2023 at 2:32 am
I bought those every once in a while. The one thing I remember was
an early-mid 80s issue that had an article (yes, in between all the
pages of ads were a few articles!) on the latest Comdex or some
such computer convention at which there was an influx of Asian
PC-compatible components suppliers. One guy said to another “I bet
I can buy the parts for a PC-XT including 20MB hard drive for under
$1,000 [way under street price at the time] and it’ll work. After
scrounging on the sales floor he had spent about $990, assembled
it, powered it up and it worked.
[59]Reply
16. Isaac Eiland-Hall says:
[60]June 6, 2023 at 3:21 am
I don’t have anything truly intelligent to say except thank you.
This is going to be an amazing resource. And a heck of a lot of
work. I spent hours as a kid poring over these.
[61]Reply
17. Mark Sanders says:
[62]June 6, 2023 at 4:05 am
Absolutely astonishing! Somebody will study this repository for a
PhD dissertation on something like the pricing volatility of
computer printer ribbons correlated with OPEC energy production
caps or something. Absolute gift to humanity.
[63]Reply
18. Shawn says:
[64]June 6, 2023 at 4:18 am
This is an amazing endeavor. I still have many of my computer
shoppers, but tossed a bunch due to mouse damage. I would
absolutely pay for access to an archive of old issues. In terms of
the time for scanning, I haven’t thought this through carefully,
but, I would say that I would be interested to understand if a
sharp blade or jig could not be used to simply slice the binding
clean off, maybe 0.25-0.375″ (6-8mm) from the edge. In this case,
no more glue, no more binding, pages already in a stack, no
waiting. There is, due to the binding, typically nothing on the
inner 10-12mm of the pages anyway. Would that work at all?
[65]Reply
19. [66]bigger.bio says:
[67]June 6, 2023 at 6:49 am
There was so many PC magazines at that time but Computer Shopper
made you feel if you didn’t buy it you were mising out on a deal.
You got a good work out just carrying the thing home.
[68]Reply
20. Border Prepper says:
[69]June 6, 2023 at 2:23 pm
My eternal gratitude for your hard and excellent work. Rest assured
that your effort is not wasted, and there are those of us who
remember the magazine and the era fondly and will use your scans
for nostalgia, for research and for educational purposes. How else
are future generations going to know that this publication, nay –
institution existed than if we preserve it for them? Good job, sir.
Good job!
[70]Reply
21. jamison abbott says:
[71]June 6, 2023 at 7:14 pm
A (woodworking) bandsaw, with a fine-pitch (high count of teeth per
inch/cm, like: 24TPI) blade is a MUCH faster way to de-bind bound
items; in comparison to using a box cutter or similar to cut out
2-3 pages at a time. The main downside is that even with a good
blade, the cut edge is more-or less ragged. Possibly a ‘toothless’
(rubber/foam cutting blade) installed on the same bandsaw would
avoid that downside, but I haven’t tried it myself. A similar, but
slower, and likely size-limited, possibility would be using a
(stationary) scroll saw.
[72]Reply
+ [73]geneb says:
[74]June 7, 2023 at 7:05 pm
The issue is the margins, or lack thereof. There’s commercial
binding “shears” that will cleanly remove the spine of a
paperback book or magazine, but when you’re dealing with the
kinds of margin issues described here, you run the risk of
slicing off actual content. That’s a problem.
[75]Reply
22. [76]Quag7 says:
[77]June 6, 2023 at 9:19 pm
I feel like I should say a prayer for you, Jason. In any case, I
find Computer Shopper to be extremely important to computer history
and am extremely grateful for the effort. Thank you so much for all
you do.
[78]Reply
23. Bob Lindstrom says:
[79]June 7, 2023 at 4:56 am
I am absolutely gob-stopped by your dedication, Jason, and the fond
memories that several of you have posted here. I was
editor-in-chief of Computer Shopper 1989-1991 immediately following
the reign of the late and much loved Stan Veit (who I had the
delight of working with and calling a friend.) Scanning that many
years of Shopper is an utterly Herculean task. During my tenure, I
think the single largest issue we published was around 920 pp.! As
I used to say, “We are not responsible for any physical injury you
may incur while reading Computer Shopper.” And although the ads
were predominent in the book, people often didn’t realize that 25%
of those pages had to be editorial content to make the postal
shipping rate. As a result, we had to produce A LOT of content each
month: 200+ tabloid-sized pages worth. Stan got around this with
features like the BBS listings. I had a larger budget to work with
so I nixed the BBS (apologies to those who loved that feature) and
increased reviews, columns, and added the product index. During
that time, humble, “ugly” Shopper–almost every IT department’s
bible–was the best-selling monthly computer magazine on the market.
(PC Mag was published every fortnight so it didn’t qualify for that
metric.) Anyway, thanks to all of you for remembering.
[80]Reply
24. Arby says:
[81]June 7, 2023 at 2:09 pm
Just thinking out loud about debinding. What about clamping the mag
tightly between two sheets of plywood, like a press. Then run the
binding edge over a planer set to remove a thin layer. A couple of
passes and you will have removed the glue layer entirely.
I found it fascinating to track the rise and fall of Gateway
computers through their ads in CS. They set the standard for all
others to follow. Each computer in its own box with its specs
listed in bullet form.
[82]Reply
25. David says:
[83]June 7, 2023 at 3:47 pm
Offset printers used a constarch or talcum powder duster on output
rollersto stop ink pickup.’ Addressograph/Multigraph or A. B Dick
accessories might be found that could be adapted. Good luck, and
thanks for doing this.
[84]Reply
26. Jeff says:
[85]June 8, 2023 at 5:22 pm
I thought old Computer Shoppers were lost to the ages. Thanks and
good luck!
[86]Reply
27. Geoff says:
[87]June 9, 2023 at 1:34 pm
In the later years there was a column called “The Hard Edge” by a
duo of writers named Alice and Bill. Bill operated what was called
the “Lab of Doom and Pepsi Cola”, and it was a witty, sarcastic
commentary on the industry back in the 1990s and early 2000s. It
would be cool to create a web archive of those articles once
they’ve been scanned. After the column was canceled circa 2004,
Alice and Bill were going to go it alone online. Alas, their
website is now 404.
[88]Reply
28. Ken Stuart says:
[89]June 9, 2023 at 4:04 pm
Curious… why not use a book scanner (such as the ones at
[90]https://www.czur.com/) that allow scanning of open books (no
need to unbind, automatically flatten text and images on curving
pages), work via foot pedal, have good resolution, can be set at
elevations that allow scanning of large-format publications?
[91]Reply
+ [92]Jason Scott says:
[93]June 9, 2023 at 6:00 pm
Only some of those things are true for this purpose.
[94]Reply
o Ken Stuart says:
[95]June 9, 2023 at 6:35 pm
Hi Jason – I’ve used those scanners quite a bit and read
your article. Which ones are not true? In my experience a
book can be opened as far as it can be, and still have
small text near the spine, which these scanners can
extract. Also, some books I have scanned have been too
big for the default height view of the scanner, so I have
raised it by placing other books under it, so that its
field of view is then large enough to grab the
double-page spread in one image. The foot pedal control
allows both hands to be used to hold pages open, if
necessary, and plastic finger tabs are provided for that
reason. The resolution of the native images has been
sufficient for my needs. I’ve got no affiliation with the
company but find their products work well, and I’ve used
only low-end models, so would think that their higher-end
ones would work well for your project at much lower cost
than the flatbed and offer those other advantages.
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# [97]Jason Scott says:
[98]June 9, 2023 at 6:39 pm
I will be happy to respond in more detail later
today after some things are done, but there is no
situation I was going to end up with me using a CZUR
scanner.
[99]Reply
@ [100]Jason Scott says:
[101]June 10, 2023 at 2:50 am
I have taken mercy and will not be responding
here. I’m doing it the way I am doing it.
29. Rob F says:
[102]June 9, 2023 at 9:01 pm
This is crazy. I remember this magazine, but then remembered that
I’m in the UK so how could that be. Turns out there was a UK
version. So I guess that’s a whole other project!
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