Grandma's recipe book is in shambles... I want to refurbish it and organize it. Its got a combination of handwritten recipes and printed from type writer. The paper ones are very fragile and yellowed out. I scanned one off my IPhone and it turned out decent. So I'll be making a copy to it, but I want to preserve the orginals too.. Anybody have experience in this area?
Sealing in plastic might be an answer but then, moisture could be a problem. For sure scanning and putting on computer is the best. I'm thinking there is some sort of spice you can put on old paper but not sure. Try doing some searching on the Internet. Wife says bay leaf can do wonders for keeping bugs out of things.
Quick search pulled up this link Storing Family Papers and Photographs and a few others from the smithsonian etc.
Make some digital copies and shelve the heirloom. Keep it dark. If it has already started to go bad it will probably be hard to stop the oxidation process entirely.
Agree, and put the digital copies on cd/dvd disk or some other media. If possible, more than one place. Hard drives don't last forever.
I'm planning on plastic sleeves to keep the original... I'm know they say to verify the make of the sleeves, but any confirmation on it? As far as name brand of the good sleeves...
Yeah, that could work, although I don't relish the cloud. Too many ways to lose/have stolen, data. Happens every day to supposedly well hardened sites. I suppose in this case it doesn't matter too much, since it's recipes. Unless they're super secret or something.
[QUOTE="papadave, post: 573809, member: 37" I suppose in this case it doesn't matter too much, since it's recipes.[/QUOTE] This.
I figured that I'd do a hard copy for a family reunion. But the biggest issue will be the preservation of the originals....
Other than putting the originals in acid free plastic sleeves, scanning everything with a good scanner and re-creating the recipe book would be my course of action. I would scan them as PDF or very high resolution jpeg pictures.
