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It's not a particularly fast scanner, but most of the 'scan' time is taken up with manually placing the book on the platen / glass. You get into a rhythm and you end up scanning more pages than you thought you would. With the software that comes with it, you can use the buttons on the scanner itself to initiate each page scan, which surprisingly saves quite a bit of time. (No reaching for the mouse to click or the return key to press.)
As long as the spine of your book was in fairly good shape, it shouldn't take too long. On old heavy books, it takes me about an hour to do around fifty pages.
The software is Win-only, but seems to work well, especially once you have the settings right for your particular book (when to rotate pages, folder to scan to, filename prefix, etc.). To be honest, I haven't tried the OCR part of things. I scan to tiff then assemble in Acrobat and do my OCR there, but that's because I'm scanning for research, not to reformat for other devices like the Sony Reader.
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