Does anybody wanna help me make .pdf's of Amiga magazines?

[Giorgio_de]

I love looking through my old Amiga magazines like Amiga Power etc, except I only have a few.  They hardly ever come up on ebay so I was thinking it would be a good idea to make PDF files out of all the ones I have.  Like one issue is one file and we could have them all together on some site so we can look through them all.

I have a small number of magazines but they are in good quality, so while they are still in good quality I reckon I could do that and share them (unless it infringes copywrite).  I can do all the issues of The One Amiga from April 1994-July 1995 and I have a bunch of Amiga Power issues but I'd have to try to find them.

Does anybody else want to help, or think it is a good idea?

[Giorgio_de]

I searched google and I found a few forums with similar ideas to mine, some are quite old (2002) so is there actually somewhere where you can get them all already?  It would be pretty handy if there was, even if the pdf's are like 10mb each.  

[Giorgio_de]

Well I'm used to 33% ads in the UK and I rather liked all the Amiga related ones, but ones for acne cleansing face wash aren't really that great!

I'm glad somebody likes the idea.  I wasn't aware (didn't think) we'd have to cut the magazines up.  I'd cry if I had to do that, I love my small collection of The One Amiga.

One of the searches of Google found this link: http://eab.abime.net/archive/index.php/t-6330.html

the guy in it says he was doing the scanning thing to make PDF's.  He also suggested contacting the original owners for the quark files of each magazine.  Is that even possible?  Considering they are now worthless to everybody except us.

[Giorgio_de]

The jpg thumbnails would be also a very good idea, we could keep each page numbered and each issue in a particular folder (can we upload to Aminet, Hyperspeed?).  That way it would be accessable to all us Amiga lovers.

 I want to take action because my first ever issue of The One has gotten rather tatty from so much use, and I don't want to see the others ending up the same, it would be great to have a resource for viewing them all in good condition.


Again though before we decide on anything, we have to remember that other people have done this (see the earlier link I posted) so we'd best check to see if it hasn't already been done (perhaps on a smaller scale with just one particular magazine scanned and PDF'd).  Is there any other main Amiga forums we can contact?