how things get scanned here

This blog has gone heavy into scanning and preservation.  I do a bunch of flatbed scanning myself, but the bulk of the magazines you see posted here are scanned by the likes of Detchibe and Hubz, and we coordinate at Gaming Alexandria.  These are ongoing collaborative projects where we all chip in money, time, and sweat equity, all at various levels, with the goal of preserving gaming history for future researchers and historians.

But this post is about highlighting that "sweat equity".  Maybe blood equity? (Scanners cut themselves so many times...)  They also endure magazines that smell like old cigarettes and blood, magazines that are falling apart, magazines that have pages stuck together, etc.

2 timelapse videos from Detchibe....  like debinding Coin Journals:

 Or chopping the spines off Amusement Journal issues:

A longer video from Detchibe, they take us through How to Debind, Scan, Process, and Upload Japanese Magazines

 

Hubz cautions that this is an older video and some of his methods have improved, but it is a great overview from him:

 

There are also others who send me in their scans.  Thank you very much for those.  Have something to preserve and share with the game research community?  Many of my sources have requested anonymity, or I can post with full credit.  Please get in touch at thetastates@gmail.com

 

Adding:

A scanning guide from Detchibe 

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