How To Store My Diaries

[Scarlett]

I've written a diary every day since I was 12, and now have over 40 books.

 

I've written a diary every day since I was 12, and now have over 40 books. Obviously, I can't scan every page, but I could take a photograph of every page, which would be much quicker and easier on my spine. Someone suggested that I could buy a phone specifically for this purpose so it doesn't use up all my memory on my normal phone.

 

Someone suggested that I could buy a phone specifically for this purpose so it doesn't use up all my memory on my normal phone. Any ideas on the best way to do this? I can't afford £500 on another iPhone just for this purpose!

[Scarlett]

Sorry for the repetition, I have no idea why my phone is doing this!!

[bednobs]

why cant you just store the books?

[bhg481]

Can you not put an SD card into your phone and save the photos to that? 1 photo a day for 3 years = approx 1000 photos, 14,000 photos for your lifetime. 1 megabyte/photo = approx 14GB 

[Scarlett]

Bednobs- having just lost a great deal of photographs to a massive water leak in my house, I'm not willing to risk anything happening to my diaries. I've been carrying them around for 40 years, and now I need to back them up.

[Scarlett]

Bhg- i'm not sure how to use an SD card with an iPhone, but I will look into it! 

[Buenchico]

I can't really see how it's going to be much quicker to photograph the pages of your diaries than to scan them.

However (unlike iPhones) just about every Android phone allows you to expand its memory by inserting a microSD card into it.  So a simple £60 phone, such as this one
https://www.argos.co.uk/product/2076197
can have an extra 256 GB of memory added to it by inserting a microSD card of that size. 

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/3202977

That would typically give you over 80,000 pictures.  (If you didn't need that many pictures, you could save money and buy a microSD card with less memory.  If, amazingly, you needed more pictures, you could buy additional cards).

[Buenchico]

>>> i'm not sure how to use an SD card with an iPhone

Tht's probably because you can't!

[Scarlett]

Thanks Buen! Well, I have a broken back, so sitting at my PC and trying to scan images is very painful. If I used my phone, I could lie on my bed and do With minimal pain!

[Scarlett]

I recently borrowed my headteachers logbooks from school. She is now in her 90s.

 

I recently borrowed my Head teachers logbooks from school. She is now in her 90s. I sat on a very squishy sofa and just went snap snap snap using my phone. The quality was almost as good as a scan And took a fraction of the time. 

[Scarlett]

Buen- would this do anything?

SD Card Reader for iPhone iPad, 3 in 1 Memory Card Reader for iPhone Camera Card View with MicroSD/TF Slot for Trail Game Camera, Photography Memory Card Adapter, Charging and Reading Simultaneously https://amzn.eu/d/hD5SqoR

[Buenchico]

^^^ If you're going to be transferring images from your iPhone to somewhere else, it would make more sense to me to keep taking pictures with your iPhone until its memory is nearly full, copy those across to your PC, delete the images from your iPhone and start the same process once more.  I can't really see the need for a card reader.

[barry1010]

Buen has the right idea.

You could also save your photos from your phone to 'the cloud' automatically. That way you would never lose them

[Scarlett]

Hi Barry, my iPhone is nearly full with my standard photos! Hence needing a different device or card or something!

[Buenchico]

Buy an adapter to allow you to connect a USB drive to your iPhone:
Amazon.com User Recommendation

Buy a USB drive, plug it into the adapter and transfer your diary photos onto the drive.

 

[barry1010]

Scarlett, you've confused me, if you saved your photos to the cloud you could delete them from your iphone. 

[davebro3]

what will you do with them once saved?

[Scarlett]

Barry – surely the iCloud will only sync with what is on my phone? If I delete my photos, the iCloud won't save them, will they? Since it syncs regularly surely it doesn't save photos you have deleted?

[Scarlett]

Dave – I will continue to hold onto my actual diaries, hoping they don't go in the skip when I die.

 

Dave – I will continue to hold onto my actual diaries, hoping they don't go in the skip when I die. It's really just backing up The physical books, just in case anything was to happen to them, I would have a digital copy.

[barry1010]

There are lots of cloud services you can use, you are not limited to iCloud

[Old_Geezer]

You could copy your existing phone photos elsewhere, check they're ok, then delete them from the phone. Use the phone memory as suggested and when all the "scan" photos are saved on a computer via the phone, return your saved photos back to the phone.

 

Should you need to keep some of the originals on the phone at all time, just move some of them to give you the memory space you need.