I'm in the same boat but I've decided I don't care about damaging the originals.
I find the center of the magazine, remove the staples, place it on a flat surface, sandwich a long utility knife blade (break away type)(fully extended) in the center of the magazine and then saw down the length of the spine while being careful to keep the blad as flat as can be.
Then I drop all the separated pages into a Fujitsu Scansnap S510M, hit the scan buttons and 1.5 minutes later I have a multi-page, full color, hi-res, searchable, PDF file.
The magazine then goes into the recycle bin and next time I have to move I'll have a few less heavy boxes.
If the magazine is the non-stapled (glued) type, I take it to a place with a guillotine chopper, pay a couple bucks, and have 100's of pages sliced in no time.
Don't waste your time with a flatbed. The Fujitsu's are practically free if you count the full version of Acrobat 8 that's included and the ABBYY FineReader OCR software.
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No they just take out the "Y'all" from his dictionary.
I'm in the same boat but I've decided I don't care about damaging the originals. I find the center of the magazine, remove the staples, place it on a flat surface, sandwich a long utility knife blade (break away type)(fully extended) in the center of the magazine and then saw down the length of the spine while being careful to keep the blad as flat as can be. Then I drop all the separated pages into a Fujitsu Scansnap S510M, hit the scan buttons and 1.5 minutes later I have a multi-page, full color, hi-res, searchable, PDF file. The magazine then goes into the recycle bin and next time I have to move I'll have a few less heavy boxes. If the magazine is the non-stapled (glued) type, I take it to a place with a guillotine chopper, pay a couple bucks, and have 100's of pages sliced in no time. Don't waste your time with a flatbed. The Fujitsu's are practically free if you count the full version of Acrobat 8 that's included and the ABBYY FineReader OCR software.
Land of the free?
Does this mean that if I change my country setting from Canada to US then I can download movies and TV shows?! Can't wait to get home and try that.