Have you ever looked at ads for computers? Have you ever noticed thatthere are no cables in any of the pictures? Try it now. Go to Best Buyor Amazon and look for some kind of computer. Any kind will do. If youcan't think of one, try a Dell 3.0 Ghz GX. Do you see any cables? Now,what do you see when you are invited into my computer room? Beautifulcomputer systems without cables? You bet! Everywhere you look you seecables. Piles and tangled strings of cables. I have 4 surge suppressors(power strips) full of plugs. Do you think all of those cables arenicely organized? Neatly coiled and marked and identified? Well, not.
Computers are basically really messy. I know people who will not allowthem in the house for that reason alone. What does this have to do withscanning? First of all, I have piles and piles of documents. The realboon to my life of storage was digital cameras, voila! no morenegatives, slides or photos. But most of the genealogy records I haveacquired have corresponding paper copies. So where are the paper copies?Everywhere. Under, over, in closets, in cupboards, under chairs, piledin corners. If you are obsessively compulsive about cleaning, you wouldhave a nervous breakdown looking at my piles. Then I have the inherentlymessy computers with cables running in every direction. So guess whathappens to all of the files I scan? Yep, they get added to the pile.
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