A whole while ago we were talking about personal data/document management.
This has become especially relevant to me since I've had to move a lot in
the course of the last two years -- and resources I can't access are useless.
Albeit belatedly, I am happy to report to having begun destillation of
my music CDs into mp3s. It's slow, and I can't batchify it yet, but
it's a start. With 128 kBit, which is roughly CD quality one averages
at about 1 MByte/min audio. On a 10 GByte disk you thus can store
~160 CDs or about 7 days of audio. With a laptop, or a wearable,
you're even mobile.
Unfortunately, I haven't managed in creating a capability to scan
personal books whether as bitmap or using OCR in time before my next
move -- a lot of books will thus have go into storage, and probably
not under ambient conditions :(
Has anybody experiences in converting treekiller literature into data,
particularly under SANE/Linux? (I'm not a zealot, I have
Is it doable, or a pipe dream?
Did you do straight bitmaps or went for the whole hog (OCR)?
Retrieval method?
Migration strategy to future storage media?
thanks,
'gene