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Originally Posted by ekillians
I would like to start a big project of Digitizing Bonsai Today/Europe in an effort to have such a handy reference available, while taking up little space and preserving them forever.
Nothing compares to holding each of these magazines in your hands with the beautful inking on such nice paper, but this will enable us to reference valuable information that would otherwise be too expensive for most of us (or better spent on plants, pots and greenhouses)
While I've been doing bonsai for 6 years, I'm only a recent subscriber, so I would need some help from each of you.
If anyone could provide a year or more of issues (6+) I would love to get an exchange going. In exchange for loaning the issues which I would mail back to you, I would obviously give you the digital copies as well as any other I obtain. Anyone interested could PM me to work out the details. I will even pay for your postage.
These will not be sold, just shared for the benefit of all. Message me if you're interested, I'll keep updating this thread with the progress so bookmark it.
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Hmmm. It's an interesting thought that I've had myself. There are a few difficulties you'd have to overcome. First and foremost is that pesky Intellectual Property thing. Unless you have written legal permission to duplicate and distribute the magazines, you could get in serious legal trouble whether you sell them or give them away. The reason, of course is that the material contained in the magazines is the intellectual property of another human being, and you have no right to do things like that with it without their permission.
Practically speaking, I am wondering what kind of condition my copies of out-of-print issues would return to me in, and if they would return at all. To get good digital images, you have to scan them, no? So who reassembles the magazine, rebinds it, and cleans it up?
This is the kind of project that the publisher should do, but of course then it wouldn't be free, and it wouldn't be cheap. So I am keeping my full set of Bonsai Today, and working toward a full set of International Bonsai (I am only missing the last 13-14 years of it. At $36 per year, it will be on my birthday and Xmas wish lists for the next couple of years.