On 4/5/06, V. B. Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steven H. McCown wrote: > > Over at slashdot, there is a thread about passing our electronic artifacts > > down to posterity (http://slashdot.org/~eldavojohn/journal/132841). > > > > Not trying to start a discussion about rifles, have any of you been working > > anything novel in this regard? > > > > Steve > > > I've picked up a new hobby of hard binding books by hand. When I've got > enough material ready to bind on my computer, I lump it into a single > file and organize it using OpenOffice. Then I save it to a pdf. After > that, I use KPDF (and some print filters) to print it as several PDF > files organized as the "signatures" of a book. Then when I'm ready to > bind it as a book, I print out the signatures to hard copy and bind up > the book. Electronic formats come and go and are still in a very high > state of flux. Books have been around for centuries and will last for a > few more centuries still. I find that this is the best way for me to > preserve my electronic artifacts. Plus, if it is done the right way, it > only costs a little for all of the materials involved--including the > glue and equipment.
That's interesting. Do you use any kind of special paper or printer that archives better? Why book binding in particular? Wouldn't just a three ring binder be a lot easier? I'm thinking that'd be easier to get the pages out to feed into a scanner to be re-imported into digital format down the road someday? I just re-read the above and realized it could come off as me being sarcastic, but I'm not. I'm really curious. At least half joking now, wouldn't it be even cooler to engrave it on metal instead of printing it on flimsy paper? Bryan _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
