fixed

But yeah, while with Fortean Times I can have a gallery of all the issues' covers, it won't be as easy to do that for these. Plus, it's not just one, there is an unknown number of publications, each with an unknown number of issues to them. It's all very poorly documented. Wikipedia has a list, but it's both incomplete and inaccurate.

Regardless, this tells me there is a severe need for someone to actually go through and document these, make scans, and archive them in a public manner, before the last of these issues rot in someone's storage, or are thrown in a landfill for being, you know, old magazines. I have already published the ISO of one of my Newtype USA DVDs (it took a whole day, incredibly painful experience)

My biggest issue with scanning is that unless you are willing to sink hundreds to thousands of pounds into equipment, you're pretty much forced to destroy your copies to get good scans. You have to use a guillotine to slice off the spines of bound magazines, and then scan the pages individually. I uhhh refuse to do this. You will never catch me destroying them to get good scans.

I will likely figure something out, eventually, but it will be very time consuming.

I once bought the cheapest CZUR model as it was coming out, only to find out I wasted loads of money on what was essentially a shitty camera on a stand. Could try to use that, could try to use my proper camera, could try the office flatbed scanner I have. We'll figure it out. Archival scanning, like anything else involving optics, suffers from extreme prices. We will fix this when we win.

To celebrate, teach an Irishman about fire or fishing today.

I can't believe I missed craic day... Although, in my defense, you failed to teach me about fishing or fire. I'm still cold and starving here.

@literaturegirl It would upset the ecosystem of Ireland if one of you knew about this. Your ancestors endured harsh winters, you will also survive.