Paul Ford, Scanning Star

We would imagine that putting the entire archives of any magazine online would be an incredibly harrowing experience, for a staff of any size. But what if we told you that this magazine was the venerable 157-year-old Harper’s, and that this was no staff. David Barringer probes the scanning skills of one-man archiving machine Paul Ford.

This tale of obsession should not surprise those of you who know the Harper’s editor. This is the man who spent the better

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