Going ALL digital

[Wilko]

So, I am in the process of selling my flat and moving on and have made the decision to get rid of as much 'physical' stuff as poss and go ALL digital.

I have already sold loads of DVDs as I have the films on a hard-drive. I am going to give away all my CDs as I have all the music stored. Finally, I have purchased a kindle and will be getting rid of lots of my books.

So, has anyone else made the decision to get rid and de-clutter their life?




* Yes, I have backed all my stuff up

 

[clippedgull]

Don't forget to keep a backup at a relatives house! Most of my 'stuff' is now digital, photos are backed up 3 or 4 times!

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Yes, I have scanned my whole collection of matchday programmes.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Don't forget to keep a backup at a relatives house! Most of my 'stuff' is now digital, photos are backed up 3 or 4 times!

Or store it online.

 

[Cian]

Legally you have no right to keep the "backup" copy of DVDs or CDs once you've sold/donated them although I doubt that's much of a concern.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I've managed to collect some 350 books. I am toying with the idea of selling them all and investing in a Kindle, but I can't quite do it yet. I love having a book to carry round with me. I love having a physical book with a turned corner and the smell of the paper.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

I've managed to collect some 350 books. I am toying with the idea of selling them all and investing in a Kindle, but I can't quite do it yet. I love having a book to carry round with me. I love having a physical book with a turned corner and the smell of the paper.

Whilst I can understand that, I love my kindle more than I thought I would and have started reading a lot more since I've have it. You can always spray it with book mould if you want that "musty" smell.

 

[Lush]

I quite like Music Magpie Selling your music CDs DVDs and games? Sell for cash the best prices paid if you don't want the hassle of selling individually. If nothing else it's quite fun putting the codes in and seeing that your random Matt Bianco CD is worth more than OK Computer. They take DVDs too. Books you really won't get much for, so you might decide instead to get the warm fuzzy feeling of donating to the Oxfam bookshop on Kensington Gardens.

 

[Ninja Elephant]

I've managed to collect some 350 books. I am toying with the idea of selling them all and investing in a Kindle, but I can't quite do it yet. I love having a book to carry round with me. I love having a physical book with a turned corner and the smell of the paper.

You're not alone, BoF. I have no intention of getting anything like the Kindle. Nothing wrong with reading a proper book.

 

[Bakero]

I've managed to collect some 350 books. I am toying with the idea of selling them all and investing in a Kindle, but I can't quite do it yet. I love having a book to carry round with me. I love having a physical book with a turned corner and the smell of the paper.

I feel the same about books. Although the vast majority of mine are on the other side of the world I wouldn't want to give them away. Thinking of getting a Kindle too but I can't see it ever fully replacing the real thing.

 

[Husty]

Or store it online.

If you are going to large scale cloud storage spend a bit of money and get a service that actually commits to protect what you store in the cloud, most free services make no such promise.

 

[brunswick]

went dig a few years ago.....saying that - was on the mp3s and movie downloads many years ago, and never collected cds or dvds.

i hate clutter.

 

[Simster]

Went digital with my music about 5 years ago when I bought a Squeezebox, but kept the CDs for the car, kids rooms and posterity. This Christmas, got an Apple TV and am currently ripping my DVDs to hard drive. I still need to undertake the whole VHS to hard drive project which is going to be very dull.

This is all completely backed up using a Buffalo NAS drive and a piece of backup shareware software that backs up my entire PC during down times.

 

[Cian]

I still need to undertake the whole VHS to hard drive project which is going to be very dull.

I got around some of the monotony of doing this in front of the PC by using a VHS/DVD-RAM deck which would record the VHS to DVD-RAM, and you can just pull the files off to a PC that with no need for ripping.

Still had to put in the tape and cue up the right point to start and so on but could do it at the TV and then do other stuff.

 

[Simster]

I got around some of the monotony of doing this in front of the PC by using a VHS/DVD-RAM deck which would record the VHS to DVD-RAM, and you can just pull the files off to a PC that with no need for ripping.

Still had to put in the tape and cue up the right point to start and so on but could do it at the TV and then do other stuff.

Cheers, I've still got to look into my options. Sadly, cost will be the overriding factor rather than time saved.

 

[beorhthelm]

I got around some of the monotony of doing this in front of the PC by using a VHS/DVD-RAM deck which would record the VHS to DVD-RAM,

i got one of those and was disappointed to find the VHS macrovision copy protection did actually work, and no brought VHS i had would copy, only self recorded. then decided i hadnt watched 90% of the videos in years and binned them anyway. with digital channels you get most half good films on a couple of times a year now.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

i got one of those and was disappointed to find the VHS macrovision copy protection did actually work, and no brought VHS i had would copy, only self recorded. then decided i hadnt watched 90% of the videos in years and binned them anyway. with digital channels you get most half good films on a couple of times a year now.

The Canopus analogue to digital converters remove Macrovision protection. Too late now, it seems!

 

[catfish]

I could part with everything but my books. I have several thousand including some rare first editions and these can never be replaced by a kindle (although I do own one).

 

[Wilko]

I could part with everything but my books. I have several thousand including some rare first editions and these can never be replaced by a kindle (although I do own one).

I have a few signed books too that I will keep. I have been converted by the Kindle though, I love it.

 

[pasty]

I've managed to collect some 350 books. I am toying with the idea of selling them all and investing in a Kindle, but I can't quite do it yet. I love having a book to carry round with me. I love having a physical book with a turned corner and the smell of the paper.

I'm a bit like that wth my old vinyl. I don't have many in the scheme of things, maybe 150 albums or so, and I completed converting them all to MP3 a few months back. They're now all in the loft gathering dust, and I don't even have anything to play them on, but each time Mrs P tries to get me to sell them, I resist. They "might" get sold when we move house early next year.