Getting deep into scanning and digitizing things at the moment. Perhaps a realisation that there is no future in holding on to things and never being quite sure what would be “the best thing” to do with them, in “the best way.” … Certainly starting to fell that the best way is whatever way gets the stuff processed as quickly and painlessly as possible - any part of the process that slows things down or is too painful to do hundreds of times a day, just becomes a roadblock.
Magazine scanning is a good example. Technically ‘the right way’ is to painstakingly unglue and individually hand-scan, colour correct and beautify every single page. But it doesn’t scale. It’s easier to hack the side off with an industrial paper cutter, and scan the lot in bulk with a sheet feed scanner. Yes, perhaps technically this is “not the best way” - you may lose a few millimetres of the extreme sides of the page. But this way is thousands of times faster and that wins, easily.
@Wonderstar perfect is the enemy of good, and a slightly rough archive is a billionty times better than not available because there might be a better quality way 👍