storing 6 rubbermaid tubs of photo albums?
I am going fulltime and have nowhere to keep them or a place to leave them. Considering using my digital camera and taking a picture of each picture. That way all the pics would be on a small SCANDI...
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Not buying a scanner is penny wise and pound foolish, as they say.
We're also preparing to go FT and I'm not just scanning all our photos, but ALL our paper. Why would anybody carry around paper or discs in this day and age?
For the things that still need to be physical (certified birth certificates and passports) we have a small fire-safe lockbox. Everything else (photos, music, movies, receipts) is in digital format.
Even the Scandisk is a bad idea, as you won't necessarily be able to read those in the future. Keep everything on your laptop with a backup somewhere (either on a large--4 GB+--external drive in a fire-safe box, or backed up online somewhere).
I've got a flatbed scanner so that I can even copy small books I want to keep that aren't replaceable in a digital format.
We're also preparing to go FT and I'm not just scanning all our photos, but ALL our paper. Why would anybody carry around paper or discs in this day and age?
For the things that still need to be physical (certified birth certificates and passports) we have a small fire-safe lockbox. Everything else (photos, music, movies, receipts) is in digital format.
Even the Scandisk is a bad idea, as you won't necessarily be able to read those in the future. Keep everything on your laptop with a backup somewhere (either on a large--4 GB+--external drive in a fire-safe box, or backed up online somewhere).
I've got a flatbed scanner so that I can even copy small books I want to keep that aren't replaceable in a digital format.
