It\u2019s been over a year now since I loaded my digitised mementos onto my iPad using the SideBooks application \u2013 plenty enough time\u00a0 to assess how useful it is having them on there. I don\u2019t think having them on the iPad has necessarily increased how much I look at them, however, every time I do look at them I\u2019m struck by how easy and simply wondrous it is to have all this material so immediately accessible on a tablet device. Being able to flick through all my old pocket diaries is particularly amazing. Despite my satisfaction with the iPad version, I know that at least once in the last few months, I wanted to find something out from my diaries, but opened up the laptop versions because I\u2019d simply forgotten I had them on the iPad. This was probably because of a) infrequency of use, and b) because I have uppermost in my mind that the masters of the files are held in the laptop.\u00a0 This combination will probably be generally applicable to most archival collections and will need to be addressed whenever a collection is made available on an alternative device.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve now completed everything I set out to do initially on memento management. The challenge still remains of how best to make these items more visible so that they can be enjoyed and experienced to the full. However that is another piece of work for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s been over a year now since I loaded my digitised mementos onto my iPad using the SideBooks application \u2013 plenty enough time\u00a0 to assess how useful it is having them on there. I don\u2019t think having them on the … Continue reading