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kitsunebi

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  1. Using a guillotine cutter is the greatest sin a scanner can make. We should be aspiring to PRESERVE magazines. That means using a heat gun on bound mags, and carefully cutting along the center fold on stapled mags, allowing the entire page to be scanned. Using a guillotine cutter by definition DESTROYS magazines by cutting away the spine and part of every single page, making it impossible to scan the entire page since part of it has been removed before it ever reaches the scanner. Imagine if someone was hired to restore the Mona Lisa and their first step was to slice a one inch strip off the left side of the painting and toss it into the trash. "Preservation," indeed.
  2. Yeah, again, I wasn't trying to single you out. There are just certain ways that people sometimes say things which can be annoyying, even though they didn't mean anything by it, so I'm hoping more people will consider their phrasing more carefully. I was guilty of it myself, years ago when I first found the site. I thought that Retromags was like most other websites I was familiar with, where the site was built and maintained by The Site Owners and all of the content they released was provided by The Scanners, a specially ordained cadre entrusted with the power to scan by The Site Owners. I would carelessly say things like "Man, I sure wish Retromags' scanners would get around to scanning some PC Gamers!" (There weren't any scans of that mag at the time, btw...how things change). But a statement like that is ridiculous. There are no "The Scanners." All scans, all database entries, all gallery images...all of it is added by ANY ORDINARY MEMBER WHO WANTS TO. So saying something like "I wish the scanners would scan some PC Gamers" is exactly the same thing as saying "I wish I would scan some PC Gamers." It's fine to wish that someone else does the work and just sit back and wait. But saying it out loud can be seen as kind of a dick move. If people are unwilling to do it themselves, they have no right to expect anyone else to do it either, or to be impatient while they wait.
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