Cataloging My Poetry
I’ve pretty much retired from writing poetry. So the next thing for me to do is to properly catalog the work I have done. And I confess I have been very tardy about it. Just the other night I pulled out a stack of magazines my work has appeared in and scratched my head on how to type all the poems out. Most of my poems were lost in a tragic 2004 computer death. I shed many tears over that. (Remember to back up your computer. Now.)
Anyway, I’ve been collating all my poems online and the remaining ones in some form of text from random files in my computer into Google Docs and Awesome Note, but the rest remain in print. Rather tired to type, I’m going to try this iPhone app OCRTOOL which appears to work as a scanner and converts the image to text.
Update: Just tested it. It works beautifully! 
No need to type my old poems. Just snap a photo of it (or use one from the photo album) and it corrects automatically to an accuracy rate of about 95%. Best $1.99 I spent on the App Store!
