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Grant Sewell wrote: > On 3/12/2007, "viv" wrote: > > >> On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 10:43 +0000, John Hansen wrote: >> >>> I would be happy to buy the CD as I would be able to dispose of the >>> magazines lying around ;-) >>> >>> John >>> >>> >> John - this was my plan too. I have a large pile of them and not much >> room. Viv >> > > Me too. I think I have pretty much all LXFs since issue 13... that's a > lot of paper! > > :) > Grant. > > Much as I admire the venture, and support the aims fully, I feel I should point out one issue which will cause a problem. For an archive to be really useful it would need to be searchable, and *if* [1] the scans are simply graphics of each page that would make the text content impossible to search. That would mean that each article would need to be read and saved in an appropriately labelled folder which would be horribly time consuming. If OCR is planned then that would help the situation. Possibly by contacting the publishers (which I believe is planned anyway) the suggestion could be floated of having any articles they do still have in electronic copy released as HTML. I'm assuming that they possess a certain number of articles still in electronic form, or they could not produce back copies (unless they just retained a quantity of unsold ones?). Possibly they possess more than a year in electronic form but have never been made aware of a need for them before. Kind regards, Julian [1] I'm presuming here -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html