Mike Hack uses a Plustek e-photo flatbed scanner to digitize 18-year-old family photos from his attic. The scanner costs less than commercial services like Legacybox and lets you work faster, handling photos while you take calls.
Using this as an opportunity to do a little work at home. My office is kind of a mess because we have all these pictures in our attic, so we took them all out. Here it is. Here's one of the pictures of my son and wife. And I got this thing called. It's called plustek E photo. I don't know if you can see it there, but PlusTech e photo. And he's put it in, and boom, it's done. And as I'm on claws, I've just been banging these out. Let me show you the screen here. So right there, it just pops on the screen. So there's my old little baby son. Those, by the way, are almost 18 years old, these photos, and you just pop them out. So I'm on calls, and I'm just sitting here while I'm doing my calls, just scanning these in. I was using legacy box, which seems pretty good, but this is cheaper, faster, and it's actually more fun going through all the old photos. So just an idea, something to some home project that you can do that I'm doing right now while we are stuck at home.
