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I've been going through a shoebox of my old photos and scanning the ones good enough to bother with. When I'm done, I'm going to get rid of the prints and just let Flickr archive them.

I've gone through about 40% of the photos in the box, and of those I've scanned about 120; the rest were duplicates or uninteresting.

But I'm surprised how dull my brain has become while doing this. I feel like watching VH1's "I Love the New Millennium" so's I can raise my IQ a bit.

I finally found and sorted through my archives of photos -- several shoeboxes worth -- and I was about to take them to Walgreens for scanning at $2.99 ($3.99?) per CD, with about 100 pictures per CD. And then I found out that they changed the pricing model about a month ago. Now it's 39 cents per photo (with a minimum of ten photos).

So does anyone know about a scanning service that's comparably priced? I'll scan 'em myself if I absolutely have to, but this was going to be a great way to put almost 15 years of photography onto Flickr with a Creative Commons license. (I've already had photos used by a Scandinavian newspaper and (soon) a British physics journal.)

Damn, damn, DAMN my delay!