It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/talliquiem on 2024-08-27 03:37:59.

I'm just dipping my toes into preservation, so forgive my ignorance, but I've been waffling over this.

I've been decluttering and pulled out some of my magazines and have been thinking about getting a CZUR to scan them. Some are old enough to not think twice about it, but I have many that are more recent that had digital issues. Despite this, they can't be found anywhere to the best of my ability, whether it's through the internet archive or open directory searching. They existed at some point, but just haven't been uploaded.

Should I scan them even if, in theory, someone could very easily and quickly upload better images without scanner artifacts/binding skew? It's only time spent if that were to happen, but I was just wondering what others did.