Labor of love scanning slides and goodbye LJ

 So as of this morning I have scanned 1,300 of the family slides on the Epson Perfection 4490 Photo scanner.  I  have to say that the scanner was a very good investment.  It has taking some time to get into the rhythm of keeping te scanner busy.  Being able to scan 4 slides at a time is great.  With an average scan time of around 11 minutes after warmup, I've tried to not let the scanner sit tool long so that I have to pay the 4ish minute warmup toll.  There really is no way to bypass the preview step.  You really need the preview in order to decide which slides need color restoration and backlight correction.  It is nice that you can have separate settings for different slides on the same scan.  Typically I only use the color correction.

So this will be the last post to LJ.  On the next post I'll be moving back to blogger.  I've got a couple of Google Apps sites up and going and really need to get the site owners to start blogging.  I am thinking Blogger will be the easiest integration with those sites, so I need to start using it to get back up to speed on the tool.

Good luck LJ team, I do hope things work out for you.  One suggesting, you really need to find a business model where you do not cramp your bloggers space with ads.  Maybe sell general user behavior data, partner / rev share with bloggers to provide relavent ads.  Not knowing your revenue sources and not have spent enough time researching LJ options, it is hard to make better suggestions.