Re:How I Simplified My Life
by noonespecial on Monday October 22, 2012 @04:44AM
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I lost my HS yearbooks before I could digitize them. Its freaking impossible to find another of those things.
A fujitsu sheet feeding scanner has been the single most liberating device I've ever owned.
When you cut apart something like a yearbook to scan it, its almost a religious experience. In faith, you sacrifice the book's corporeal form so that its essence can ascend into the cloud and live forever.
My HS yearbooks were destroyed in a flood. I felt bad and nostalgic for a couple of days. Now it's just a cocktail party story about how I lost my yearbooks.
Not a fan of classmates.com, but they are digitizing yearbooks.
I digitized a bunch of stuff as well, and was very pleased with it. Objects were keys to memories for me, so throwing away the object felt like throwing away the memory. Looking through the photos makes me really happy, and I don't miss not having the physical objects.
Digitizing was probably my favorite part of this process. I actually look at my photos a lot more now than I ever did before when they were stuck in photo albums because they're in folders in my computer now. And the same goes for my old papers, cards, etc. It's not that I look at these items very often now, but I never looked at them before.
Re:How I Simplified My Life
by jamesrcole on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @01:38AM
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With photos and paper based mementos, I found the physical copies just sat in a box, and were (almost) never looked at.
Scanned copies are a lot easier to 'take out' and browse through.
Sometimes an item exists just to be itself. A yearbook doesn't have any value if it isn't yours, or if you don't invest it with some. If you decide you don't want something, fine – but it seems very strange to keep around a formless simulacra of it.