Throwing away old CRT-monitors doesn’t help much if the space vacated is immediately filled with old magazines of various kinds. To make rooms for new ones, I started throwing out almost everything. I did save my Foto, Herman Hedning, Studio and about a year of MacWorld issues. I hesitated about 20 old Allt Om Elektronik, and finally decided to try scanning them.
One page took about three minutes (USB 1), allowing me to complete one full magazine in about three hours. Running off to my computers every three minutes would really annoy my family. Cleaning ut and producing optimally compressed images would probably take another hour. This was clearly not a viable alternative. Too bad.
Back at work, I discovered that the copier has a scanning function. Now I just have to slice up the magazines and fix the edge so that it doesn’t jam the feeder. When arriving at work, I put one bunch in the scanner. After a few minutes, a mail arrives with an URL to my scanned document. A 50 page pdf. Great!