Would the Super Museum count as niche?

Superman Museum in Metropolis, Illinois: https://supermuseum.com/

The page displays the movie title logos for Superman I-III but not Superman IV or Man Of Steel. I suppose that's a selection bias from the website owner Reagan Ray.

Here's his page on Marvel Comics title logos: https://reaganray.com/2021/04/06/marvel-lettering.html

Man of Steel is past the 2000 cut-off.

I have a question for anyone who might know about this sort of thing.

I bought a book from a Manhattan auction in NY for about $100,000.

I would like to digitize the book, but there is fading from light degradation on several pages. The book is about 100 pages total and it's from the 1930s. It is typewritten and it was mimeographed to make copies.

What is the best way to go about scanning the book, and also what can be done about somehow being able to track the ink of the fading text?

AFAIK usually the original is photographed under a particular light (and with specific filters or cameras) that depends on the specific kind of ink, see:

https://activehistory.ca/2018/09/recovering-contrast-in-fade...

You're looking for a digitization archivist; this is a bit small scale though - generally collections are larger.

Now I'm super curious; what kind of book that's not even 100 years old would sell for that kind of money?

I'll reveal the answer by the end of this decade when the copyright expires. The main reason I bought it is because it's not archived and transcribed on the internet already and it was frustrating me, so it became my Holy Grail, and then I was telling someone it was my Holy Grail and looking it up to show them, and that's when I noticed it was on the market.

Is the text the original typewriting (with artifacts from type impacting the page, or stenciled to prepare for mimeo) or is it mimeographed (which I always saw using turkey-red ink)?

As soon as possible, just take photos with an iPhone. Don’t put it off.

I wasted a lot of time trying to optimize the digitization process (I collect 15th/16th c books). Just do it.

I'll tell you for $50,000

This works, as long as you don't have to paypal people. Is there a way to make paypal transactions anonymous to the other party?

The only reliable use case of crypto

Spotify already has a "Discovered On" section on the Artist page which has playlists that include the artists.

I'm still mad that Fandom killed LyricWiki. I spent so many hours and hours adding the lyrics to my favorite songs from obscurer music, and all that effort and work got wiped.

The feet to meters conversion, or vice versa, doesn't work.

If it annoys you, then you're probably an extrovert.

I am an introvert and I like being alone and being able to choose how much I self-express and communicate. In person, I do not have as much choice about my time and energy commitment in front of company if I want to be polite. It's just easier for me to manage my social bandwidth while being on the internet.

I am also an introvert and the computer is an easy escape after a day of what I can only describe as sensory overload. That said, the author's point was more about productivity than socialization. There, I can only agree.

To offer a couple of personal examples: I have to actively avoid certain types of games since it is far too easy to explore virtual worlds, gather virtual resources, and build virtual things when I would feel more productive doing something real. That something real may be as mundane as learning how to develop software more sophisticated than toy projects, simply because the product is reflects reality rather than fantasy.

The other example is my tendency to watch other people do real things, like embedded development or repairing electronics. I have the interest and I even have most of the tooling. Still, consuming is easier than creating. That is especially true after a mentally exhausting day.

I can only conclude that technology has made some things easier than others, and that it doesn't necessarily correlate with what people value. It doesn't even matter whether those values are social or asocial.

I think he is more annoyed of being unproductive, i.e. wasting time on social media instead of getting work done. I am more of an introvert and love working alone, but I hate looking back at a day and realizing that I spent most of my time lurking on certain wensites instead of implementing that undo functionality which I had originally planned.