Re: SoftSide magazines, etc...

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Iosaef the Irascible wrote:
> I was browsing Google's Groups cache catching up on all the time I'd
> been away, and came across a few posts talking about SoftSide magazine,
> and finding enough of them to do a CD archive.
>
> Well...
>
> I believe I have all of them, from 1978 to 1983, excluding the
> AtariSide volumes.  That's the S80 SoftSides, and the
> Appleseeds/SoftSide AppleSide magazines.  They're library-bound and
> well taken care of, a precious gift from a very dear friend.  Sans for
> perhaps a few pages (that I might also still have, I need to look
> inside the volumes again), I believe the collection to be complete.
>
> If someone knows of a way to nondestructively scan and record the
> newspaper-thin pages without wrecking them or the binding, I'd be game
> for helping to bring SoftSide to the rest of the communities involved.

These sound like a prime candidate for digital camera imaging.
It would still be necessary to partially flatten the pages, but
a camera and proper lighting can easily deal with the curve in
toward the spine.

It's a shame that scanners and copy machines are so hard on
book bindings.  ;-(

-michael

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