I’ve just finished listing the things I would need to see on an Electronic Story Board before sacrificing each of the items concerned during the scanning process. The results are in the spreadsheet Requirements for each Electronic Story Board, and I’ll be using them to create a story board for each of the selected items.

I’ve decided to also create story boards for a few items that I decided to retain in physical format and that won’t, therefore, be fully scanned. As I pondered those items, I got to thinking that I’d like to have story boards for them – even though I started off with the notion that the purpose of a story board would be to compensate for not having the physical item on my bookshelf. It appears that having a story board could be a worthwhile addition to the physical item itself.

The whole analysis exercise has thrown up another interesting observation: creating a story board is not going to be just a matter of illustrating some specific memories. It is also going to involve some investigation to uncover some forgotten, unknown, or additional facts; and it may well also identify that some of my memories are false. In fact, creating a story board will be just an additional iteration of experiencing a plethora of memories centred on the item in question. We may believe our memories of specific objects are static, but, in practice, they live within a moving sea of continually accumulating daily experiences. As time goes by, we forget, we embellish, we connect. I anticipate that the process of creating each story board will itself significantly extend the repertoire of memories and feelings I have for each item.