Chapter 15. Photos

When I grew up—before the Internet—my family often had to entertain each other with conversation. I know, it was hard times. We played games where we asked each other hypothetical questions. I remember asking my mom which item she would take if our house were on fire, and she said the photo album.

Times haven’t changed that much. The modern disaster scenario is, of course, the hard drive failure, and I regularly get email messages from readers asking how they can recover their digital pictures from their failed drive. To this day, nobody has ever asked me how they ...

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