[LMB] OT: safety of photos

[Mark Allums]

Louann Miller wrote:
> Ed Burkhead wrote:
>> Digital photos are nice because they are easy to backup.
>>
> The old family photo albums are on my Things To Scan list. I keep not 
> doing it yet.

Those who *have* scanned, but not recently, may wish to
do it again[1] since storage mediums[2] go in and out of
style[3] periodically and also, hard disks and other
media hold lots more nowadays, so a higher resolution
scan is now more practical (and generally desirable).

--Mark Allums


1. On an icebound Sunday afternoon when there is no laundry to do
2. "Media" seems to mean something else these days
3. Go obsolete, e.g., if they are on CDs now, you may wish to burn again
    to DVDs, etc., ad infinitum.