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Hi!
I'm all set to run to Staples and photocopy the student pages from LHTH! It was SOOOOO helpful to be able to print the alphabet cards from the website. Do the manuals for older kids have a lot of photocopying too? Maybe making those pages available on the website for printing would be helpful for other Moms too? Just something I was thinking about.
Question for veteran homeschoolers - do you find that it's just easier to own your own photocopy machine?
~8 yr old DD
~6 yr old DD
~4 yr old DS
~2 yr old DS
I'm not a veteran homeschooler, but since my kids have been in school I have found a photo printer/scanner/copier for my pc to be invaluable. You can pick them up pretty cheap now a days. I got an HP the day after thanksgiving for $29 and it works perfectly for copying my forms and worksheet pages for the kids as well as printing all my pictures. The ink is reasonable also. Once you scan it into the pc, you can just pull it up any time and print without having to pull the book or paper back out.
I too wish that the LHTH had a pdf version you could purchase for the printables. It isn't too bad copying the pages though. Another poster said she just did it all at once to get it over with. I am on Unit 5 and I think I will do that soon also. However, I think LHTH is the only guide that has a massive amount of photocopying required. I have LHFHG and BHFHG and we haven't made any copies yet with either of them.
I wouldn't have minded a student book with the perforated pages needed for LHTH either. I would definitely have purchased it if it would been available. Student pages available on cd or downloadable pdf or a student book already printed...I would have invested in them.
Anyway, purchasing one of the all in one printers that doesn't have expensive ink is well worth the money. I would research it and make sure the ink wasn't super expensive.
Val
LHTH is the only one with photocopying required! At two pages a week, LHTH is on the minimal copying level, which keeps any copying needs very manageable. One day, we may work toward having PDF's of the various LHTH pages that can be be purchased and printed off the web, however since LHTH functions well as is, it's pretty far down on the list of "To-Do's".
The rest of our guides don't require copying. And our newest CTC guide comes with Student Notebooking pages (which will be in full-color and are turning out BEAUTIFULLY)!
It is VERY convenient to have an all-in-one printer/copier/scanner at home!
Kristen
Loved LHTH & LHFHG
DS8 (2nd) WWE1, HOD dictation, Sequential Spelling, SM 2B, VP OT/AE & SOTW1 history, Song School Latin, Getting Started With Spanish
DD6 (K) Saxon Math 1, VP Phonics Museum K
DD3 cutting, gluing, more cutting
hmmmm might have to go after Thanksgiving shopping too to get a deal like that. And I mega-loathe after Thanksgiving shopping. But for a copier/printer for $29 I am all in!
It was SOOOOO helpful to be able to print the alphabet cards from the website. Do the manuals for older kids have a lot of photocopying too? Maybe making those pages available on the website for printing would be helpful for other Moms too? Just something I was thinking about. 
