Would you like to own EVERY SINGLE Model Engineer edition ever published?

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Posted by Raymond Sanderson 2 on 24/04/2018 22:29:20:

I've known people who would go that far staples bent open every page removed scanned or back then photo copied and all returned to the same staples ever so neatly.

That's what I do when I want a complete article from a magazine. Even preview each page to make sure it is neat!

I thought OCD meant One Careful Driver.

[John McNamaraParticipant @johnmcnamara74883]

Hi Editor Neil

A number of the scanning devices don't open bound books more than 90 degrees, about the same as if you were reading them. Keith Rucker at Vintage Machinery is compiling a free database of mainly American Machinery. He made a video of how he scans Books and brochures.

Regards
John >**LINK**

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Posted by Neil A on 25/04/2018 12:45:14:

I have just read Hopper's posting on "The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu", I must get a copy of that it sounds a good read.

The fact that they had to collect the manuscripts from family homes and desert caves just goes to show how easy it is for valuable documents to be lost forever.

The manuscripts had been in ancient libraries and informal universities in Timbuktu for centuries but were hidden in the family homes of prominent scholars and others in the 17th century to escape a previous fundamentalist jihad that swept down from the north, and then to keep them safe from the French colonial occupiers who looted whatever they could. It is quite a story. And yes, it does show how easily irreplaceable documents could be lost for ever.

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Posted by John McNamara on 26/04/2018 00:36:01:

A number of the scanning devices don't open bound books more than 90 degrees, about the same as if you were reading them. Keith Rucker at Vintage Machinery is compiling a free database of mainly American Machinery. He made a video of how he scans Books and brochures.

John, thanks for that ….. not so much for the scanning information but for the pointer to the Vintage Machinery site. That looks like one really useful site (machinery info, manuals etc).

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