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[Stroller]

On 22 Aug 2007, at 15:09, Chris M wrote:
>
> if you can spare the time, and it doesn't take a huge
> amount, *scan* such material with a digital camera (of
> any mpix rating). Someone will be looking for it
> eventually. I've had stuff like that, and hated
> tossing it.

Although I can't say I've had the experience, "scanning" hundreds of  
pages with a digital camera sounds somewhat demanding & time- 
consuming for someone who is demonstrating their interest in the  
material by throwing it away!!

Lots of decent "multifuction" inkjet printers these days have a page- 
feeder and can be left scanning to produce a big series of .tiff  
files or a pdf or whatever. In finding a scanning-printer that has  
this feature the emphasis is on *decent* - you'd probably pay £200  
(or I guess maybe $300??) for a Canon or HP with a page-feeder. I can  
imagine that many folks on this list prefer to buy laser-printers or  
their scanners as separate units, but nevertheless inkjets are much  
more suitable for photographic oputput, and the wife will find an MFC  
more convenient for photocopying her recipes / knitting patterns /  
$other_chauvinist_stereotype - the high-end models with sheet-feeders  
are the ones that folks like us will buy if resorting to an inkjet MFC.

I'd have thought that one of these would produce MUCH better output  
than a digital camera, so if anyone does have manuals to dispose of  
that they'd like to rip first then I'd suggest finding an  
acquaintance who already has such a printer. Book-bound manuals may  
need slicing apart with a stanley knife, spiral-bound manuals may be  
easier to open apart, but this will surely not take long and is the  
most labour-intensive part of the operation if you have a proper  
sheet-feed scanner.

Stroller.