The doodles have survived unviewed for however long and really should just be thrown out, the digital copy is just a short term echo (and could always be printed off if I wanted a paper copy again) ...
... the idea of the scanning of old convention flyers etc. is to make them available for historical/searching purposes ... I do not intend to be a research library for those ... PRs and Programme books on the other hand I'll try to keep a paper copy as long as I can (or pass it on to a longer term archive if the Foundation or similar is interested).
You're right of course, but I really do need to declutter (and there is a company selling special "DVD_Rs" (need a special writer but read in a normal reader) that claim a 1,000 year readable lifespan ... but I'm not planning on buying one of those ... I do try to keep at least two copies (on different hard disks) plus a DVD+R copy of all my important files (e.g. my photographs, word documents, backups of my websites, my email archive etc.) and every few years I copy it all again onto larger backup drives (my backup drives a few years back were 120Gb or smaller, then are now 320Gb or 500Gb drives, but then currently attached at home I have a 1Tb, a 750Gb and a 300Gb external drive (750Gb is my music drive, 300Gb is my TV drive and is FULL ... 1Tb drive is all sorts of stuff including the music and TV that won't fit on the other drives!) ... the stack of Toshiba external drives are currently awaiting unpacking from my trip back from Cambridge (five drives of 320 to 500Gb) ... I figure the TV stuff can be downloaded again, ditto a lot of the music, so it's really the rare stuff plus my own documents and images of the main C drives that need to be backed up regularly)
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... the idea of the scanning of old convention flyers etc. is to make them available for historical/searching purposes ... I do not intend to be a research library for those ... PRs and Programme books on the other hand I'll try to keep a paper copy as long as I can (or pass it on to a longer term archive if the Foundation or similar is interested).
You're right of course, but I really do need to declutter (and there is a company selling special "DVD_Rs" (need a special writer but read in a normal reader) that claim a 1,000 year readable lifespan ... but I'm not planning on buying one of those ... I do try to keep at least two copies (on different hard disks) plus a DVD+R copy of all my important files (e.g. my photographs, word documents, backups of my websites, my email archive etc.) and every few years I copy it all again onto larger backup drives (my backup drives a few years back were 120Gb or smaller, then are now 320Gb or 500Gb drives, but then currently attached at home I have a 1Tb, a 750Gb and a 300Gb external drive (750Gb is my music drive, 300Gb is my TV drive and is FULL ... 1Tb drive is all sorts of stuff including the music and TV that won't fit on the other drives!) ... the stack of Toshiba external drives are currently awaiting unpacking from my trip back from Cambridge (five drives of 320 to 500Gb) ... I figure the TV stuff can be downloaded again, ditto a lot of the music, so it's really the rare stuff plus my own documents and images of the main C drives that need to be backed up regularly)