I'm looking for an affordable gym, someplace that's ok with a monthly payment. It must have a squat rack. I mean a real squat rack, not the stupid smiths machines.. Preferably in western Kunming.

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Thanks.

Hi KMers ..

I'm just interested to see how accurate pages like these are translated on Wikipedia. I'm especially interested in Chinese/English versions of the same page.

Chinese1: zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/两个凡是
English1: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Whatevers

Chinese2: zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/破四旧
English2: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Olds

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If you have some time and energy, you can check out these DIY projects.

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www.instructables.com/id/Copy-Your-Old-Slides-The-Easy-Way/
www.instructables.com/id/How-to-digitize-35mm-negatives/

I also want to scan my family's big bag of photos and film, and I usually look for DIY solutions before looking for something to buy off the market. In this case, DIY seems to be much more expensive.

I'm interested though, if you were in Europe, what model would you buy? Also, did you try Taobao?

Link to said Fujitsu scanner? Actually I want to know if the maching you're talking about has some mechanism to automate flipping the pages..

Also, did you consider sending the books to another city? Did you try asking in some Shanghai forum for example?

PDF is totally not the right tool for such a job. look into DjVu >> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DjVu .. much smaller file size while still retaining high quality print. Just as an example, an A4 size physics book (lots of photos and diagrams) 1500 pages, clear print .. files size was a total of 38Mb (thirty eight only.. ). !! Save that as a pdf..

If you can't find a shop to do it for you cheap, build a digital scanner yourself. Or with other bookworms actually in Kunming now. (I'm not).

It's not very difficult. Have a look here, complete with illustrative photos and what not... >>

diybookscanner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=333
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