scanners

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Im interested in buying a scanner for uni - think its gonna be usefull to scan text books etc. Im after something small which is able to plug into my laptop. I dont have a clue on the best scanners so i thought someone may know what Im after and hopefully they could help.

I heard of some handheld scanners which maybe useful? any ideas?

cheers

[Overdriven]

Honestly just think anyone would say go buy a normal scanner. But check for DPI ranges (Dots Per Inch, to do with the quality it scans in) and the price you can afford really

[thergador]

gotta aggree with over drive hand held scanners are pretty much useless for scaning any thing bigger than the width of the scanner (normally about 4 to 6 inch's) the scanner i have is a HP one, its less and a 1" think so it fits easily in my laptop bag when i need it, other option is a proper laptop scanner that you feed in the sheet (like a fax machine). but there are quite a bit more than a flat bed

[Golly]

most people at uni just have a printer/scanner combi in the room, and use library one when needed (its free to scan or 10p per sheet photocopied etc- or was at my uni)