Retrieving Old Scanned Journals

[Pussinboots]

I scanned my old journals about two years ago and have them on my hard drive but have destroyed the originals. I now regret this as looking back on them scanned isn't the same. I am guessing it would be too time consuming and costly to print them all out, or mainly the entries I would want to keep, and then there is the question of binding. Has anyone got any ideas? Or should I just forget the whole thing and start afresh? I am now journalling again and intend to keep the hard copies.

[Mannyonpil]

Oh no. How many pages do you have should you decide to print them?

[delano]

Sorry to hear of your predicament. Some questions to settle with:

 

How important is it to have a hard copy? Why do you want a hard copy?

 

Since it is your journal, and therefore a very personal thing, (obviously, since you want to hold it again), I would make it a little more personal and watch some youtube videos on how to do coptic binding -- and bind it yourself. You'd be less likely to destroy them again and you'd have that connection not only with the contents but the books themselves.

 

Whatever the case, make it easier on yourself and spend a WHOLE LOTTA TIME figuring out what you want the end result to be. You don't want to have come up with a better idea after you've started. And you don't want to repeat this experience.

 

You could print out a set number of pages a day -- you don't have to do it all at once.

 

Just some random thoughts to share.

[Pussinboots]

Thanks for your replies. There are quite a lot of pages, about seven quite thick hard backed books. I would also want to leave some bits out which are too sensitive. I wish now that I had not had them scanned but just blacked out the parts I didn't want in there anymore.