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Should I Tear Up My Sega Visions Mags?
racketboy - Jun 8, 2004

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  racketboy Jun 8, 2004
Since I'm trying to minimize my amount of physical "stuff", I've been scanning and throwing away a lot of my magazines. In order to get the best and quickest scans, I've been carefully disassembling the magazines into single pages.

So, the question is, should I do this to my Sega Visions. I only paid $.10 each for them at a used bookstore in my hometown, but they are pretty cool -- and I know Cloud will kill me if I destroy them. ))

I'm planning on scanning them at 300dpi, clean up the scans, saving them as high-quality JPEGs, and then convert them to PDF files. After that I can share them with others (they will be large files though).

What do you think?

 Dud Jun 8, 2004
I'd scan them all, a .pdf file last a life time. Besides the whole 'book' thing is pretty played out, I haven't even touched a book in years.

 racketboy Jun 8, 2004
lol -- It's just a little against my past nature. I'm a collector at heart. But when I think about it, they are probably just gonna sit around.

I do love digital media though

 Alexvrb Jun 8, 2004
I'm pretty sure you can take Cloud out-- err, I mean, uh, what were we talking about? Oh yes. Well, since you're traveling so light, you could always do everyone a favor and "take one for the team". While it isn't good to be tearing them up, if you scan them in, many more people can enjoy issues that they no longer have or never had.

 racketboy Jun 8, 2004
Cloud, if you're reading, and I do go through with this, I can send you the neatly torn pages and a DVD with the scans if you pay for packaging, disc, and shipping

the hard part is being able to scan a bunch of mags before I move.

 Dyne Jun 8, 2004
scan them and have ice host them here. ive got all my issues tucked away somewhere myself.

 racketboy Jun 8, 2004
well just to give you an idea of file sizes, I've scanned about 5 full issues of Maximum PC without the ads. It's a fairly skinny mag -- maybe less than Sega Visions -- and the JPEGs per issue were 230MBs. So we're talking probably 350MBs per issue with ads (which are cool in vintage gaming mags).

Might need to do some torrents.

Also, if it's not considered evil, I could burn the results to a DVD and send it to whoever (esp bandwidth-challended individuals) for like a $5 donation.

 stack99 Jun 8, 2004
if you are offering that for your sega visions in dvd, I would be interested, thanks.

 Alexvrb Jun 8, 2004
Ask Ice what he thinks, you can always downsize them a bit and use slightly more compression (I find the "optimize" checkbox in the JPEG filter helps a lot), and he could assemble the issues into PDFs and host them. I don't think it is unreasonable to cut the size down quite a bit without serious quality loss.

Alternatively you could use a newer compression format, but that would potentially cause viewing issues for people.

 racketboy Jun 8, 2004
well I noticed Ice was reading this topic, but he never commented...

I could have like a 150dpi version for download that would reduce size a lot, but if one wanted to print a decent quality version from it, they would probably want a 300dpi.

 racketboy Jun 8, 2004
BTW, if anyone has any of the few issues I am missing, I will gladly trade for a scanned DVD set!

 Cloud121 Jun 8, 2004
NO! NOO! NOOO! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! racket! I'll do anything! ANYTHING!

Also, I don't have a Combo/SuperDrive! So that's even more reason not to do it! I can't read the DVD-Rs!!!!

RACKET! PLEASE! ANYTHING! I will do ANYTHING! I NEED THOSE SEGA VISIONS!

 Dyne Jun 8, 2004
isnt anything over 200dpi generally overkill? that right there would chop down overall file size.

 racketboy Jun 8, 2004
decent printers usually print more than that.

I thought 300dpi was kinda standard for decent printouts.

 racketboy Jun 8, 2004

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by Cloud121@Jun 8, 2004 @ 11:44 PM



 NO! NOO! NOOO! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! racket! I'll do anything! ANYTHING!



Also, I don't have a Combo/SuperDrive! So that's even more reason not to do it! I can't read the DVD-Rs!!!!



RACKET! PLEASE! ANYTHING! I will do ANYTHING! I NEED THOSE SEGA VISIONS!


I can burn them on CD special for you, if you want Cloud

Why don't you just buy them off of eBay? I see issues on there fairly often.

I don't even have quite a full set yet.

Well maybe this can be a compromise, they are bound by staples, so if I'm careful, I might be able to separate them without too much damage. Then I can mail them to you and you can reassemble them, frame them, or whatever your little heart desires.

 IceDigger Jun 8, 2004
Send em here and I will post them up.

 Cloud121 Jun 8, 2004

  
	
	

		
		

			Originally posted by racketboy+Jun 8, 2004 @ 07:42 PM-->
QUOTE(racketboy @ Jun 8, 2004 @ 07:42 PM)