The book that I scanned last week, “Blondie and Dagwood’s Snapshot Clue” was the largest book that I have scanned. It ended up being 256 pages including the covers. Most libraries that would scan a book like this would scan it as “gray-scale.” I like to scan as color and then spend my time getting …
Some of the things I scan are not related to Monroe County. Those I put on the Internet Archive. My most viewed thing on there is a 1905 Jell-O Recipe book. Currently over 3,500 people have viewed that small booklet. I had three other Jell-O booklets so I scanned them and now they are on …
I spent most of last week scanning a children’s book; Nixie Bunny in Faraway-Lands. Seeing as it isn’t local history it is over on Archive.org. This is a story about Grandpa (Nixie) and Grandma traveling around the world with their two grandchildren; Molly and Browny. The book describes the places that they visit as “strange …
As I have written about before I have been shopping for a new scanner that could scan larger pages. Last week while scanning Rochester; It’s Got It! I noticed that the images came out with a thin green line on them. The old scanner also had some small scratches on the glass. I have been …