Recently I lost a lot of issues of Wood magazine to water
damage. I've replaced most. I'm on a mission now. I'm cutting the
magazines in half, scanning them to PDF file (I bought a scanner with
a document feeder, wow), then using a 3 hole paper punch and putting
them in 3 ring binders sorted by year and month.

I just came across the #1 issue of wood magazine in excellent
condition. I'm tempted to cut it, scan it and preserve it forever.
Thoughts on this? Is it collectable? Leave it alone as is?

PS, if anyone has interest in doing this, make a database in Excel.
Put in a 'comment box' for each cell with features of each issue, it's
searchable. In one glance, you can see what issues you have and what
is in each magazine.... Also burning the PDF files to DVD to preserve
them forever. Really have no need now for the paper copies.... but
there's nothing like holding one in your hand. Also, you can open the
3 ring binder and take out the few pages with the plans you need.

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:54:58 -0600, Johnboy wrote:

Recently I lost a lot of issues of Wood magazine to water
damage. I've replaced most. I'm on a mission now. I'm cutting the
magazines in half, scanning them to PDF file (I bought a scanner with
a document feeder, wow), then using a 3 hole paper punch and putting
them in 3 ring binders sorted by year and month.

I just came across the #1 issue of wood magazine in excellent
condition. I'm tempted to cut it, scan it and preserve it forever.
Thoughts on this? Is it collectable? Leave it alone as is?

PS, if anyone has interest in doing this, make a database in Excel.
Put in a 'comment box' for each cell with features of each issue, it's
searchable. In one glance, you can see what issues you have and what
is in each magazine.... Also burning the PDF files to DVD to preserve
them forever. Really have no need now for the paper copies.... but
there's nothing like holding one in your hand. Also, you can open the
3 ring binder and take out the few pages with the plans you need.


I've been doing something similar using Keynote. I have a tab marked
"Magazine Articles" under a woodworking tab. I then have an index of
various subjects: Tables, Cabinets, Shop Jigs, etc and references in each
of those to magazine articles. For those articles that seem to have near
immediate or serious application, I also scan in the article, save it as a
Word document (with scanned copy as pictures), then save a link in the
Keynote tab for that article.

For articles or plans that I am using, I copy the article, bind it with a
comb binder between a couple of heavy card-stock covers along with a few
blank pieces of paper and take that down to the shop -- I can then annotate
or modify the plans as I please on the copies and make notes in the back
and still have the rest of the magazine in pristine condition for future
use.





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Now we'll just use some glue to hold things in place until the brads dry

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