Is anyone scanning non-gaming magazines like Nickelodeon Magazine?

[RoboBlue]

There's been a ton of attention given to gaming magazines over the last few years, but what about other magazines?  Nickelodeon Magazine is one I remember fondly, but no one seems to be scanning it, so I fear it may be lost forever soon.

[Starnerf]

I have a bunch of LEGO Mania magazines that I've thought about scanning.  It helps that they're only like 20 pages long so the scanning would go pretty quickly.

[kitsunebi]

The number of people actually scanning gaming magazines is really quite small.  It's a deceptively time-consuming task, and even if the fact that most magazines are destroyed in the scanning process weren't a deterrent, most people simply aren't willing to commit to the time and effort it takes.  It requires a certain amount of passion bordering on obsession, so the likelihood of most magazines getting scanned is pretty slim.  But if you feel passionately about preserving Nickelodeon Magazine or anything else, well then, you're halfway there!  Now all you need is a scanner and Photoshop! join us...join us....

[RoboBlue]

That and the money to acquire the magazines themselves.

[KiwiArcader]

In addition to scanning computing/gaming magazines I am scanning a 1960's vintage weekly comic called Look and Learn. At 36 to 40 pages they are a whole lot easier to scan than gaming magazines however, being a weekly, I have something like 700 still to scan  

 

Being pretty old myself I have also scanned a 1943 vintage Wonder Book of the R.A.F. I think when you get into scanning you tend to deviate of the original track when things come along that interest you.

 

Comics are a bit iffy though as like novels they tend to be timeless and they (the publishers) tend to litigate pretty vociferously. One of my scanner members had a cease and desist notice issue against his own website by DC Thomson recently which forced him to remove a LOT of comics even though they were 1960's/70's vintage so I'd think carefully about hosting them locally, especially if the publisher is still active.

Edited August 11, 2016 by KiwiArcader

[kitsunebi]

You're right, comics are just like books and are often reprinted and commercially available, so we would never host them here.  Luckily the rest of the internet can be quite accommodating (I say this as someone with 8TB of comics on multiple HDDs).

[Data]

I have been following a guy's blog since 2012.  He has provided many scans of Cracked Magazine.  There is also a website which tries to provide all of the issues from multiple sources.

http://langtath.blogspot.ca/2016_06_01_archive.html

http://read-cracked-magazine.blogspot.ca/p/issue-list.html

[twiztor]

i have the second issue of "Where's Waldo" magazine. i believe they only made two. when i find the 1st one for very cheap, i will probably scan them and toss them online somewhere. highly doubt there's much demand, but you never know....

 

i also have a metric ton of digital comic books preserved. you can find pretty much anything. the few things i've looked for and been unable to locate, i picked up on the cheap and made them available.

[Estil]

If anyone could do the Highlights for Children magazine that'd be so so awesome.

[CjGuitarist82]

Yea, it sounds a little weird... but I would totally be into the Highlights thing, too.  I had a subscription for a couple years when I was Really young, and imagine it would blow my mind to see them again.  I keep an eye out on ebay every now and then, but only rarely see ones I remember, and they're always in a big lot.

[Estil]

Yeah who could forget that dickwad asshole Goofus and that goody-goody suck up Gallant?

[TheVoid]

Are there any other projects like retromags that focus on other types of magazines? Been feeling nostalgic 

[Areala]

On 11/25/2022 at 5:42 PM, TheVoid said:

Are there any other projects like retromags that focus on other types of magazines? Been feeling nostalgic 

Archive.org has a section that's just called "The Magazine Rack" which is full of various magazine scans on all sorts of topics. Might start there.

*huggles*
Areala