The latest in digitizing books: http://www.ionaudio.com/news/press-releases/ion-announces-book-saver-book-scanner more information, a picture, and embedded video at: http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2011/01/scan-a-book-in-15-minutes.html It is not small, but looks VERY easy to use! Best part, it looks like I could then OCR on my Mac as easily as a PC. On another note, someone posted on MobileRead about the mother of all book scanners. I am not sure if you can read this without an account, and it may have been found by our new fearless leader since the poster is named Alisa, but if Bookshare is looking to spend serious bucks: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23135 Valerie, who would love to do ALL her work on a Mac!