Aimee Baldridge

There's something ironic about seeking out a book for advice about digitizing analog media and organizing the resulting digital files. Nevertheless, this book is proving to be a useful guide to me as I seek to scan old family photographs and safely back up my increasingly large digital media library. In a sense, this book can be read as a how-to-build-your-personal-digital-archive guide. Baldridge supplies common sense approaches to potentially overwhelming digitization projects. She assumes enough knowledge of technology on the part of the reader to operate a computer without hesitating to explain the basics of available hardware and software. I particularly appreciated her introduction to NAS (Network Attached Storage) drives and her suggested filing scheme for digital photos.… (mais)