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Originally Posted by thinkpadx
One thing to note is that each scan to .BMP picture (grayscale 300 dpi) takes up between 3-4MB. If you've got a book containing several hundred pages the amount of space needed will quickly add up.
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Meh. HD space now cost
around 75 cents per gigabyte. That means (ignoring for simplicity the small difference made by the base 2 vs base 10 measurement of drive sizes) a 300 page scan (at 4 MB per page) cost a buck to store. (Not like the Bad Old Days of measuring hard drive prices in dollars per megabyte.)
BTW, I've had my scanner over a week and discovered something just last night-- between the reversible black/white top plate and the scanner lid there is stored a 8.5x11 sheet of stiff black plastic (the same material used on the black side of the plate.) No doubt included so that you can slip it behind the page of the book being scanned when there are bleedthrough problems.