Thank You For Your Service!

[morgandawn]

Say a fond farewell to a loyal partner in our fandom history preservation. I bought this Scansnap scanner in 2010 and have used to to scan fanzines, letters and other fandom ephemera (songvid playlists from VCR-era video cassettes) - over 700,000 pages.  If you have visited Fanlore, the fan run wiki, many of the fanzine covers came from a scanner like this.  And some of the scanned zines are archived at Texas A&M University’s Sandy Hereld Memorial Digitized Fanzine Collection.
 
The scanner never had a name - but it will be held in a place of honor. 

 Salutamus te!

Screencap of fanzine covers from Fanlore’s Novel Zines Category

Comments

Salutamus te scanner

[noxelementalist]

May your work be well remembered and loved!

[emrinalexander]

This scanner now retires - a well-earned rest- to that place over the electronic rainbow bridge and hail and farewell!

[klia]

RIP to an amazing workhorse. Sadly, its replacement likely won't produce even half its output.

[amalthia]

RIP scanner! I can't believe it scanned over 700,000 pages! Thanks so much for your efforts on preserving fandom history.