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I’m tempted to complain about magazine publishers deciding that they should ignore conventional page widths and go “NOOOO! We want our beautiful publication to be just very slightly wider and longer than everything else so that it stands out more” but then I realise that actually i used to write for a few magazines that did just that, so perhaps I shouldn’t moan too much. 🙂

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I guess that in the same way as CD-ROMs were once an effective barrier to piracy as they were larger than the storage that most people had, so 9x12 magazines are protected against people who only have access to A4 photocopiers. 🙂

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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.

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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.

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