Does anyone scan their comics?

[glennsim]

There's an entire market of second-hand CD and DVD/Blu-Ray stores. It's not illegal, or else stores like this wouldn't exist. There's actually nothing written anywhere that says that you can't do it. Who gives a shit anyways?

By all means, find where this is illegal.

As Jolly Mon says, there's nothing illegal about reselling your CD, it's keeping a copy of the CD after you sell it back. Your copy was just to enable you to use YOUR CD in a different manner. If you don't own the CD any more, you can't continue to use it (via the copy).

Here's a thread where a bunch of people agree that it's not legal (in the case of music): http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=340518

[Mark_S]

After I scan my comics they just go back into the longbox with a board and a bag. But if I were to have them slabbed -permanently sealed in a way I could not read them- then would I still be entitled to keep the scans? I think the intent of the copywrite laws is to prevent large scale re-selling.

One other thing about scanning, make sure you back up your files. You can scan for years and then have it all go away with one power surge.

[glennsim]

After I scan my comics they just go back into the longbox with a board and a bag. But if I were to have them slabbed -permanently sealed in a way I could not read them- then would I still be entitled to keep the scans? I think the intent of the copywrite laws is to prevent large scale re-selling.

One other thing about scanning, make sure you back up your files. You can scan for years and then have it all go away with one power surge.

I'd say it's fine if you want to slab it. You still own it. The fact that you have chosen to lock it away to where it can't be read isn't pertinent.

[Mat001]

Mostly myself, just scan, preserve on computer, my favorite pages, panels, straight from my own physical comics, bought fair & square.

Such as, this pretty darn formidably AWESOME rogues gallery, THE rogues gallery of all rogues galleries....from my Best of DC Blue Ribbon Digest: Batman's Villains

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To, for dramatic effect, this shot of a "moment" caught up between Lois Lane and Superman in DC Comics Presents #8, reprinted in my Best of DC Blue Ribbon Digest: Superman Battles Weird Villains!

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Or, this "pin-up worthy" shot, from my NEW 52 RESURRECTION MAN #2, cropping out sophisticated, conservative (other words, BORING!) Bonnie Hoffman, to focus on practical, SEXY Carmen Leno! Gotta love heart-dotted undies!
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Yeah, I've done stuff like that and have it on photobucket. Either because the interior artwork is so good that it warrants scanning, or because I want to make a point about something.

[Tandaemonium]

I think that might depend on the scanner, my first scanner had to really work to do 300 and the light was so bright if I didn't put a black piece of paper behind the page I got bleed through from image on the other side. My last scanner worked best at 200 dpi and my current scanner seems comfortable with 300 dpi.
This is the first image I scanned into the computer, a Umax max clone (actually I paid my 14 year old niece to do it, young relatives can save you a lot of grunt work :) using a bright scanner. No image correction. Format is bmp



and this is one I scanned yesterday with my latest scanner using the Cannon Solution software, image fading correction on the low setting
Format is tiff



Both have reduced in size. So I think the scanner can make a difference. Also in how long it takes. My first scanner took about a minute per scan, my last scanner took about 45 seconds and my current one does it in about 15 seconds.

Understood. Yeah, you should get a new scanner. Even consumer level scanners should be able to do 300dpi. That's the minimum anything print should ever be. Never less. Also scan to raw or tiff. You want to preserve as much raw data as possible on scan...not bitmap. It's the post-scan work that can be whatever format you want.

[Rafa-Rivas-2099]

Thinking of digitizing my 25 year DC collection and wanted to see if anyone has had success.

Well, as long as you already own them... wouldn't it be easier just to download the .cbr files with torrent?

[Mark_S]

Understood. Yeah, you should get a new scanner. Even consumer level scanners should be able to do 300dpi. That's the minimum anything print should ever be. Never less. Also scan to raw or tiff. You want to preserve as much raw data as possible on scan...not bitmap. It's the post-scan work that can be whatever format you want.

Oh I moved on to 300 dpi with my new scanner, and the bmp format was back in 2005. bmp back then was a good format, far better than gif I thought which was my option too. I sometimes had fun with the word recognition part of the software, where it would recognize and turn into a web page the image. That actually does work with letter pages, though you have to do some correcting.

[Mark_S]

Well, as long as you already own them... wouldn't it be easier just to download the .cbr files with torrent?

How much is available online?

[The Duke]

(Hopefully no-one made this joke)

If by scan you mean I scan them for signs of quality then yes, I do, scan them.

[glennsim]

How much is available online?

It has always been my impression that unless you were downloading the latest issues to hit the streets, it was hard to find them, but others may know more advanced techniques than I.

The only stuff I've ever downloaded was stuff that I had ordered via mail order and wanted to read while I waited for my physical copy. Which isn't legal either, but I'm not worried about it morally.

[Billy Batson]

Pretty much everything is up on the interwebs.

[Jeff Brady]

(Hopefully no-one made this joke)

If by scan you mean I scan them for signs of quality then yes, I do, scan them.

That's not a joke.