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Thursday, September 3, 2015

A new personal record!

I didn't expect this to happen today, but I set a new personal record that will be hard to beat. When I woke up this morning, I was not feeling well. My health issues have been acting up as late (I don't wish to go into them more) but I decided early on I was going to spend most of the day scanning. I don't know why but it went easier today, even though I mixed in some mirror foils and Finest pages, which take about double the time to edit than a regular scan.

In the end, I scanned 81 pages of cards! Since I began doing the fronts and backs of each card in 2012, my record was somewhere in the 40s. I don't remember if it was 42 or 46 but I do remember it was somewhere in the 40s. I doubled that number today!
The number is uneven because I had one page where I only had to do one side.

That is a grand total of 746 scans made, edited and labeled...all since 6:30 this morning.

It is going to take me days to post these scans to the Database, but I enjoy it.

Quite a few of the cards that came out of the boxes were some of my favorite sets, which made it more fun. My collection is sorted somewhat by player, somewhat random so I have no idea what is going to be in each box as I open it.


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11 comments:

  1. Hotrod MamaSeptember 3, 2015 at 10:18 PM

    Absolutely incredible!!

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  2. RAZSeptember 3, 2015 at 11:54 PM

    That's a whole lot of scanning! I think I'd go cross-eyed after about 30 scans.

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  3. Billy KingsleySeptember 4, 2015 at 12:33 AM

    I love scanning. I average about 12 to 15 pages a day, it's rare when I can do this many. I did one more page fully after the post, a page of Finest and Chrome cards, and prepped more for cropping tomorrow but as I type this I'm about 10 minutes short of 22 hours awake and I'm headed to bed.

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  4. CorkySeptember 4, 2015 at 1:35 AM

    Wow, that is a ton of work, scanning can be such a tedious job. When I joined Zistle last year I went through a similar process and I don't think I could have done more than 10-12 a day before hitting a point of going crazy.

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    1. Billy KingsleySeptember 4, 2015 at 12:33 PM

      It is, and lately I've been somewhat burned out. I basically took August off aside from new additions, but I truly love doing it...I've been working on it since 2009, and I still have a long way to go before I finish my collection. And when I finish the cards, I'm going to scan other collections too...I love the process of scanning.

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  5. BobWalkthePlankSeptember 4, 2015 at 8:02 AM

    I don't necessarily hate scanning, but their is no way I could do 80 pages. That is quite a feat!

    You should work for a court house. The files would be indexed in a week!

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    1. Billy KingsleySeptember 4, 2015 at 12:35 PM

      Ha! I don't know about that. I have never done this many before, and I doubt I can keep up the pace...Back when my health was better I did consider a career in law in fact.

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  6. Mark HoyleSeptember 4, 2015 at 9:39 AM

    Wow. Impressive

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  7. Billy KingsleySeptember 4, 2015 at 12:36 PM

    Thanks for the comments folks!

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  8. Captain CanuckSeptember 4, 2015 at 1:07 PM

    wow. that's a tonne of cards. How do you do it? Scan a full page of nine and then crop each one? or load the cards individually onto the flatbed?

    any chance you belong to Zistle? Put those scans to good use!

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    1. Billy KingsleySeptember 4, 2015 at 5:21 PM

      9 then crop. I post the scans to the Trading Card Database, and my own website.

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