Scans and Snaps is an austerely and accessibly presented archive of scans and screenshots derived from a fairly large, personal collection of books, comic books, Compact Discs, and Digital Versatile Discs. Thumbnails in its galleries are compressed as JPEG raster images to conserve time and bandwidth, but all of the target images are losslessly compressed as Portable Network Graphics. These images constitute a snapshot of my collection -- creases, tanning, tears, artifacts, and all; none of them have been cosmetically altered.
All scans were created with a Canon CanoScan LiDE 110 flatbed scanner, and most screenshots were snapped with VLC Media Player. PNGs were optimized with Oxipng, and JPEG thumbnails were generated therefrom with ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick. Pages were designed and written with NEdit and (occasionally) ne.
This site was created for two intentions: to exhibit and share a personal collection of raster images, and to counter present trends of vacuous, trendy, low-quality "curation" practiced by opportunistic, ultracrepidarian "influencers" who aim to monetize recycled images and inane opinions in address of substantial cinema and mainstream dreck alike. These are not legitimate bibliophiles, melophiles, or cinephiles. They are pretentious parasites who've no more integrity than the oligarchic billionaires whose services they use to peddle more ugly trash and ineptly reiterated information.
Microblogging sites such as Tumblr provide an enjoyable means to disseminate content, but they're inadequate mediums for the presentation of a large, omnibus collection. Galleries on Scans and Snaps are simply designed with minimal CSS to emphasize substance over style, and display a high volume of graphical data.
Scans and Snaps was launched on January 27th, 2025.
Scans and Snaps is updated weekly. The site's present catalog will probably be fully indexed sometime in mid- to late 2027. As my accumulation of media is perpetual, it will probably never be "done" or "complete."
If you like anything here, don't hesitate to download it; this site was purposed to freely share these images, to which I've no claim of copyright whatsoever. Should you decide to use them in any way, I would appreciate some notice of your activities. As these modest pages are mine, please do not mirror or otherwise replicate them elsewhere.
If you happen upon any error, as a typo or broken link, don't hesitate to contact me in concern of it. Would you like to see a cover or inlay card that isn't here? Have I overlooked a particular scene or shot therein that you'd like to see? Let me know! Pages here are statically presented, but always subject to revision and interpolation if necessary or desired.