Along the same line of sharing from AL, can you share with us what equipment you use to scan books, manuals, and papers in order to archive them on bitsavers? -- Primary scanner is a Ricoh IS520. B&W up to 400dpi, double sided, 30ppm, handles 11x17 sheets Built like tanks. I think we have a dozen of them now between Eric and I. Just found two on eBay for under $300 ea incl shipping. SW is windows-based and quirky, but after running a million or so pages through it you learn to get around the bugs. I made the decision a long time ago that the data on the pages was more important than the bindings, so bound docs and books are disassembled to scan. If I can find bound docs in poor condition (water damage, etc.) I'll use those first. I have a Mustek 11x17 flatbed SCSI scanner for large format or color scanning. I also have a Mekel M560 microfiche/aperture card scanner that I'm just getting up to speed on, and a couple of large format (36") scanners that I need to get going, and a bunch of 3M microfilm scanners in storage.