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Way to go, CARRfan; you sure touched a nerve with me. I hadn't thought about creating a digital archive but I sure have now. Years ago when I was studying to become a computer programmer one of my projects was a program designed to index magazines - I, of course, had my model railroading/prototype railroading magazines in mind. This has been on hold for twenty years - time to get off my caboose and get it done I guess. My old computation was that it would take about 2-3000 lines of code - about 50 hours. Piece of Cake!!!! <br /> <br />One thing I need to explore first is the possiblity that there might be a database/spreadsheet system that would allow an indexing function. I was a "hard language" programmer and haven't worked with those things in quite awhile. <br /> <br />About the copyright ramifications of creating a digital archive; I am not an authority on the issue but I am an aspiring (notice I didn't say "perspiring") novelist and I have crossed swords with this issue before. You bought it and therefore you have acquired an "interest" in the magazine. You can not profit from the intellectual property (read: sell it) nor can you cause the author/publisher to sustain loss (read: give it away, and [picky-picky-picky]. loan it - every used book store in this country is in violation of copyright law and, therefore, technically illegal. Libraries have an exemption to this rule because they are [usually] municipal agencies. Even then they are not supposed to have "used book" sales.) You can store the information in any manner that warms the cockles of your heart.
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