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My MR mags and drumming mags were getting out of control. I had 15 or so years of drumming mags, and 5 or 6 years of MR (a couple years at a time from different phases of being interested in the hobby). <br /> <br />Finally, when my wife and I moved to our present house, I realized I was sick and tired of lugging all these magazines around. <br /> <br />I took a razor blade and cut out any articles I couldn't live without, and scanned them on the computer scanner. <br /> <br />Now I have really nice directories of magazine articles on my computer - stored way better than they could be stored in paper form. Even if you rip them out and put them in a folder, sometimes the end of one article is on the opposite side of the paper as the beginning of the next - making for a categorizing nightmare. <br /> <br />Now I just go to my "David Barrow" directory for tons of David Barrow articles, "V & O" for all my V & O articles, etc. <br /> <br />"George Selios" for all of the F & SM articles. <br /> <br />"handlaying track & turnouts" for all those articles, etc. <br /> <br />Not a single advertisement in my collection! <br /> <br />It is totally awesome!!! <br /> <br />I used to waste too much time flipping through mags to find a certain article, then end up reading something else, etc. Now I go directly to what I need. <br /> <br />Also, I'm only 30. If I kept collecting MR's for the rest of my life, it would be totally out of control. <br /> <br />In fact, now I'm only scanning things I REALLY can't live without. If I'm at all going, "hmmmm... I don't know...." - it's off to the recycle bin baby.
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