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UPDATE (3/20/24): Sixteen more issues have been uploaded, and can be accessed via this link:

hxxps://we.tl/t-neEC0tJLtc

More detailed information on those 16 issues can be found on Page 2 of this thread. Hope you enjoy them!
I have a stack of Goldmine & Discoveries magazines, and decided last week to try and digitize them. Well, after several days, I finally finished one of the Beatle-related Goldmine issues, and decided to share it here. It'll probably be my only full magazine scan since it took a large amount of time due to having to perform 2 scans for each page, then merge them together. Future endeavors will be just the cover and any articles I want to save. That being said, it was fun going through the pages and seeing the vendors I used to do business with when building my Beatles vinyl, CD and bootleg collections.

I've uploaded both medium resolution and high-resolution PDF files of the November 3rd, 2000 copy. If you just want to look at the articles, the medium resolution copy would probably be okay. If you want to check out the tiny print vendor listings, then the high-resolution copy would be your best bet. I also zipped up my original merged scans (in JPG format) and uploaded them, in case anyone with the skills of creating better PDFs wanted to give it a shot.

I'm no expert at this so it's not perfect, but I'm still pleased with the outcome, even though the file sizes are a bit high.

Here's the link if anyone is interested in checking it out: <this link expired - see below for new link>

UPDATE (3/14/24): I've uploaded another 18 Beatles-related Goldmine magazine issues (in PDF format), ranging from 1988 to 2006. I didn't include all the ads this time...just mainly the Beatles-related content, so the content has been trimmed down quite a bit. Even so, there's some good articles contained in them, and wanted to share them with our community here. Here's the link:

<This link expired>

I also re-upped the 2000-11-03 issue with just the Beatles-related content.

Hope you enjoy!

1988-07-29 - Beatles Spectactular
1989-02-24 - The Beatles
1989-11-17 - The Beatles
1990-10-19 - The Beatles
1991-11-15 - Beatles
1992-11-27 - George Harrison Interview
1993-11-12 - Beatles '93
1994-11-25 - The Beatles
1995-11-10 - Annual Beatles Issue
1996-11-08 - Annual Beatles Issue
1997-11-07 - Annual Beatles Issue
1998-11-06 - Annual Beatles Issue
1999-11-05 - Garage Sale Issue
2000-11-03 - Beatles (full issue previously uploaded)
2001-03-23 - Final Days Of John Lennon & Yoko Ono
2001-11-02 - Annual Beatles Issue
2002-01-25 - The Music Of George Harrison
2005-11-11 - Annual Beatles Issue
2006-11-10 - Annual Beatles Issue

Thanks a lot for sharing!

Whew !! !
That's a lotta work "recce13".
Thanks for the effort.

Kevin

Your PDFs look great!

I use Photoshop to Auto-align layers, which is a big help.

Or better, from Adobe Bridge you can send selected images to PS for Photomerge.

Either way, no manual alignment effort is needed.

Thank you very much for this Goldmine

For more Beatles magazines:
Some Old Magazines: viewtopic.php?t=6471

thank you

alphabeatles wrote: ↑Wed Jan 24, 2024 4:19 pm
I use Photoshop to Auto-align layers, which is a big help.

Or better, from Adobe Bridge you can send selected images to PS for Photomerge.

Either way, no manual alignment effort is needed.

I looked at using Photoshop, but I don't have a Photoshop license and didn't want to pay the monthly subscription rate for this project (since it'll probably be on-going for several months). So I continued looking and found an open source program on the web called "Hugin" that auto-aligned the pages and stitched them together. There was a little bit of a learning curve, but the results turned out pretty good. Once the images were merged, I used the Microsoft Photos program that came with my computer to adjust the brightness, contrast and alignment of the resulting JPG files. And finally, I used the free image viewer program "IrfanView" to set the parameters I wanted to use in conjunction with my computer's "Microsoft Print to PDF" option. So even though all that didn't produce perfect results, they were more than good enough for me and the price was right

Just added another 18 issues! I've updated my initial post with the link and additional information.

The 1994 issue came out while I was a senior in high school. Their review for "Artifacts" inspired me to buy the box set (via the classifieds), thus beginning my 30 years of boot collecting! I read the Beatle material in that issue back to front, and still have it to this day. Glad to now have it in digital format. Thank you!

recce13 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:54 pm Just added another 18 issues! I've updated my initial post with the link and additional information.

Thanks a lot!!!