[ Continuing the thread under subject "wiki...". ] Scanners have pros but because they are dangerous to use, I would prefer digital camera. At least I got fed up to lifting up the book for changing pages. A 600 pages book is quite weighty. Another annoyance was that the scanner collected dust (both from book and from room). Scanner was also slow. A couple of days ago I borrowed a tourist range digital camera. I could digitize 8 pages per minute. It was as fast and easy as I had predicted. The digitization speed was limited only by image transfer technology, not by speed of my fingers. "Easy" is the keyword here. I have invented a couple of camera features which would help in book digitization. Anyone would know how to contact camera manufacturers? Juhana -- http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-graphics-dev for developers of open source graphics software