The Effort Involved in "Updating"

Yesterday, I finally got started on the process of looking at the articles that were transferred from Squidoo to my "new" account at HubPages.

I am still feeling a little bit "meh" about the fact that we are not able to combine the accounts, or at least do a one-time transfer of articles between accounts, for those of us who had existing HubPages accounts at the time Squidoo announced its demise. I would have liked to have been able to "organize" my content into somewhat meaningful categories.

I have been putting off dealing with the editing process because I know my articles are "long and involved" and it would take a lot of work.

I was not wrong about that: Editing my first article-- in Introduction to Stamp Collecting-- took me a good three hours of work, because of the time it took to "re-format" different segments and get rid of sections that "made sense" on Squidoo, but do not work with the HubPages interface. I well understand why I have been putting it off.

Fortunately, I only have a total of eight (now seven) articles I need "convert," so it's not a huge amount of work. Even so, it feels a little like I'm going to spend 20-25 hours doing something that will end up earning me $5.00 a month... that's pretty measly pay.