A crisp sunny morning, a free afternoon at home, and an email arrives telling me that volume 2 of Michael the Syrian is available for collection at my local library.\u00a0 Sometimes it all just comes together.\u00a0 I wonder how much of it I can scan today?<\/p>\n
UPDATE: (Early Afternoon) I’d forgotten how HEAVY the volumes are.\u00a0 The physical labour in picking\u00a0 them up, turning the page, placing it on the scanner, turning it round, etc, it pretty exhausting.\u00a0 The paper is yellow-ish, which makes for speckling when scanned.\u00a0 70 pages so far, tho.\u00a0 The speckling seems to affect the margins most.<\/p>\n
It’s an interesting question, whether to trim the margins or not.\u00a0 Why bulk out the file with speckled white-space?\u00a0<\/p>\n
UPDATE: (3pm) 123 pages. Groan.\u00a0 One page had a bit of foxing, which came out as black splotches in black\/white scanning.\u00a0 So I did that page in colour.<\/p>\n
UPDATE: (5pm) I’m aiming for 200 pages.\u00a0 On page 190 at the moment, although I had to stop when the plumber arrived.\u00a0 Then I can have dinner!\u00a0 Somewhere in the reign of Justinian at the moment; I saw the name Belisarius a moment ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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