Organize Your Digital Life: How to Store Your Photographs, Music, Videos, and Personal Documents in a Digital World

I've eagerly awaited the release of this new book, as it appears to be the only source of information in book form to deal with its topics. And it deals with them superbly. Digital immigrants like myself who have an avid interest in photography and music will easily come away from every page of ORGANIZE YOUR DIGITAL LIFE having learned something both interesting and helpful. It offers time-saving tips, uses clear terminology, is well-organized, has a good index, and explains IPTC, WAV, SATA, RAID, DNG, and many other acronyms. In addition, it offers a slew of websites, brand-names, illustrations, and helpful advice and cautions. Another plus is the physical makeup of the book: glossy paper, clear type, nice graphics, eye-appealing layout. Looking for help with backing up photos, storage options, finding an online community for your photos, online radio, or converting prints, negatives, analog cassettes, and VHS into digital files? Here's the source. Wanting to learn more about organizing your digital files? Here's the source. The problem with this book? It will be out-of-date sooner than readers would like, given the fast-changing nature of our digital world. But that is the ONLY problem with this clear, articulate, well-organized, helpful title. Congratulations to National Geographic and to Aimee Baldridge for offering such a fine resource.

I'm a smart person but I have felt frankly dumbfounded and frustrated by the barrage of digital media that has overtaken my life in the past 5 or so years. Finally there's someone to help me figure out how to safely store and clearly organize my photos, documents, movies, and music. This book is extremely clear and detailed and gives very helpful and explicit instructions. It has greatly improved my relationship to my digital life. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND it, and it would make an excellent gift.