Nearing the end of a 6-month push (can you call it that?) to clear unscanned items off the scanner table. Which is why so many #digitization things lately.
Things end up on the table because I can sell them for $$$, & because they're interesting. But also things LEFT on the table are onerous: floppy, stinky, long, fragile, &c.
Anyway I gritted my teeth & started a long one. Came across a multi-page list of hundreds of Late Roman Provinces in Africa, which somehow appeals because it's esoteric
Scanned several things today, but have only gotten around to uploading one slim issue of the Morris-Systems Checkerist, a Detroit-based "Monthly Publication Devoted to the Interests of the Checker-playing World".
A second issue of the "Morris-Systems Checkerist" magazine uploaded. I have a few more to come, from a stack I bought locally some years back, but may take a break to insert the other thing I scanned yesterday into the queue.
Noted about the Checkerist: A lot of the discourse seems to be letters from readers who found errors in previously published games or puzzle answers?
Still plowing through a stack of short magazines, brochures and disbound items which litter my scanning table. Surely this has nothing to do with the coming anniversary of the first day I uploaded something last year, and my 365-moving average quantification of uploads per day.
This is a sad little issue of The Scots Magazine of November 1759. Somebody trimmed it to within an em on all margins, and then bound it together TIGHT. Sad.
Busy-seeming on the weekend, but only because I wasn't posting things I scanned earlier this week.
Last addition for the day: The Hotel Monthly of January, 1923. Featuring all the century-old American hotels your city government is now trying to get torn down as eyesores.
And a noteworthy keynote address on "A Vision of the Country Hotel of 1940", featuring "chains" of properties! motor cars! electrification! supply chains!
Two more issues of The Checkerist, the magazine for the "Checker-playing World".
Uploaded this morning, apparently before the archive was down? Not my fault. Might be down again, though....
And yes, I have a whole year of these. And also of the Hotel Monthly. So those will be salted throughout. And also that dang Sunday School Advocate. The pile is shrinking slowly.
I sat down and scanned/cropped the remaining issues on hand of the Morris-Systems Checkerist. TBH, I should probably figure out how to consistently title those, since I think the company name is "Morris-Systems" and I neglected the hyphen at least some of the time.
At any rate, some processing still happening on the server side, but they are here
The first year of uploading to archive.org has wrapped, and I might even be falling behind in some sense. Haven't been able to scan for more than a week.
Uploaded two items from 10+ days ago though, sadly both partial copies of American Photography.
This plus the rollover brings the 365-moving average back down to 242/365, but! I didn't upload anything between Feb 3 and May 2022, so it should be easy to recover.
This year, I gave a special gift to some of my family members.
I digitized, or at least attempted to digitize, all 20 of the reel to reel recordings my late grandfather had done on his unit.
One of the reels had what was apparently a 1972/1974 Christmas day recording of the family opening presents, singing Christmas songs, and chatting together.
My grandfather smartly preserved that space in time, and I've now digitized it for future generations.
At one part of the audio, I can hear what I'm sure sounds like an 8mm or Super8 home camera being used. We have those 8mm films still, they just need to be digitized.
I am then hoping to digitize (in 2023) those tapes, find the footage, and combine the small video portion, with the digitized audio portion; a small fully featured family home movie moment, preserved over almost 50 years later :)