Any Strategy Guides currently being scanned?

[Rando1975]

I picked up 2 new strategy guides. The Prima Medal of Honor: European Assault guide and the Piggyback Assassin's Creed II guide. I'll be mailing them to E-Day sometime next week for scanning.

[E-Day]

No rest for the wicked I guess! I just got done scanning and editing everything I had. Guess it'll be a short break! 

[dablais]

@E-Day I'm sure @Phillyman has some stuff left that he needs to send you.

dablais

[E-Day]

He does. But he is slow at sending stuff out so I figured I would have a loooooong break

[Rando1975]

I picked up the Prima guide for John Woo's Stranglehold today. I should have it in the mail to E-Day for scanning/editing later this week.

[Rando1975]

I also ended up getting the Bradygames Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of 2 Worlds strategy guide, so I'll be sending that along with the Stranglehold guide to E-Day. 

[E-Day]

I'll wait for those to come before I scan the others then! 

[Rando1975]

I picked up the Prima Super Mario Galaxy Guide for donation. It will be a few weeks before I send it to E-Day.

[JimJam78]

Going to do the guide for Paper Mario for the N64.  I need a palate cleanser.

[MigJmz]

Prima's NFL2K2, 2K, 2K1 have been sent to me.

[SimonBestia]

I have scans of the Bully: Scholarship Edition BradyGames guide that may as well be ready for upload, but was wondering if anyone was willing to take care of the editing part so it looks a bit more polished?
Or should I just upload it as it is and have someone upload a better edit later?

[MigJmz]

44 minutes ago, SimonBestia said:

I have scans of the Bully: Scholarship Edition BradyGames guide that may as well be ready for upload, but was wondering if anyone was willing to take care of the editing part so it looks a bit more polished?
Or should I just upload it as it is and have someone upload a better edit later?

send it over via mega.io or dropbox and i'll take a look at it.

[Rando1975]

I picked up the Prima guide for F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin today. It will be sent to E-day for scanning.

[Rando1975]

I'm back from vacation and picked up the Prima strategy guide for Mario Kart 8 (Wii). It will be sent to E-day shortly.

[dablais]

Is it this one or a different one ?

Danny

[Rando1975]

I should have said for the Wii U. Oops.  I recently added a scan of the cover.

[dablais]

Very cool then!

[matrixman]

I have opportunity to pick up Prima Splinter Cell Conviction and Blacklist game guides as well as Brady Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2.

Also maybe Brady - Batman Arkham Asylum  

Do we need these?

[Rando1975]

On 10/14/2024 at 10:22 PM, matrixman said:

I have opportunity to pick up Prima Splinter Cell Conviction and Blacklist game guides as well as Brady Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2.

Also maybe Brady - Batman Arkham Asylum  

Do we need these?

Brady's Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 has a cover in the database, but I don't see a download link, so I'm thinking we don't have it. 

And I don't see any entries under Prima for any of the Splinter Cell games, so we probably don't have though either.

But our regular scanning folks can check for sure that they don't have them acquired already.

[Lucoshi]

I'm looking mostly at DK64 and the Banjo Kazooie Series guides

[Interesting]

Still trying to work on the scan of that Consumer's Guide book I got.

I initially scanned it all in a bit ago but noticed that there was either a hair or something in just about all of the pages. Despite my best efforts too, I also was trying to not un-coil the book to preserve it on my end too. I'm gonna undo the coil and try again once I get some more free time on my hands. Life's gotten in the way.

Curious, has anyone been able to scan books and *not* take all the pages out to scan? Just in general. I'd be more than willing to scan some in my own collection, but I don't want to destroy them.

[kitsunebi]

4 hours ago, Interesting said:

Curious, has anyone been able to scan books and *not* take all the pages out to scan? Just in general. I'd be more than willing to scan some in my own collection, but I don't want to destroy them.

Has anyone been able to scan mags without debinding?  Of course.  Tons of magazine scans are like that (not so many at RM, but still...)

Has anyone been able to scan mags without debinding and have them look just as good as a mag that has been debound?  No, probably not.

Still-bound mags can be scanned.  But they're never going to look as good as if they had been debound, period.  And depending on the length and binding style of the mag, it will be either a challenge or nigh impossible getting it to look good enough to be accepted here. 

Scanning mags isn't something to be precious about.  My view is: your goal as a scanner should always be to create a scan so good that you'll never have a need to look at the physical copy again.  If you're happier reading the print copy, why bother making the scan in the first place?

[Interesting]

For me it's more the preservation and being able to share the magazine than anything. I like the idea of being able to share it with a friend to enjoy, but it's also one of those things where I don't know where I'll run into another copy of these guides again, so I just like to be careful about these sorts of things.

[kitsunebi]

My personal take is, if you can't bear to destroy the mag, you're probably better off just accepting the role of the collector.  There's no shame in that - there are certainly a heck of a lot more collectors in the world than there are scanners.  But it's really hard to be both, unless you're satisfied with being a mediocre scanner (or unless you're rich enough to buy two copies of everything so you can scan one and keep the other.) 

Of course, the other reason scanners tend to debind their mags is that scanning bound mags on a flatbed is TEDIOUS work.  Most people serious about scanning would rather scan 30 debound mags on an ADF scanner in the same amount of time that someone using a flatbed on a bound mag could scan one.

 

I will stress, though, that debinding a mag has the potential to ruin a scan just as much or more than using a flatbed to scan a bound mag.  Debinding must be done in such a way that you aren't cutting off part of the page.  That means NO GUILLOTINE CUTTERS.  Anyone using a guillotine cutter is just being lazy, and the resulting scan is no different from someone scanning a bound mag and then just cropping off the part of the page that's out of focus or shadowed due to the page curvature near the gutter.  Whether you crop part of the page off with a cutter's blade or crop it digitally in Photoshop, a crop is a crop and your scan is missing part of the page.

Edited October 23 by kitsunebi

[slider1983]

2 hours ago, Interesting said:

For me it's more the preservation and being able to share the magazine than anything. I like the idea of being able to share it with a friend to enjoy, but it's also one of those things where I don't know where I'll run into another copy of these guides again, so I just like to be careful about these sorts of things.

I feel it's important to keep a magazine whole if possible. Why would I destroy I magazine just because I want to scan it? I'd rather pass it onto someone and preserve it longer. Some scanners only care about digital preservation which is wrong because physical preservation is just as important for magazines.