Portable Scanner Solutions for Research?

Fished asks: "Lately, I'm finding that I need to do a lot of research in Libraries -- remember those? I'm tired of feeding dimes to the copiers, and would like to buy some kind of portable scanner to go with my Powerbook. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find one that will work. Back in the eighties, this were as common as dirt: they were small, four inch wide scanners that you could run over the page. Also, while I've found three portable scanners for PC's (from Antec and Pentax) even if I could somehow get them to work with Mac OS X, they are sheet-fed, which is useless for scanning pages out of books. Does anyone still make the old-fashioned Hand Scanners, and do they make them for Macs?"

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Here's one gripe I have about slashdot.

[Wakko Warner]

People who spew ridiculous tripe about some law or another without even getting the spelling of the law right. It's DMCA.

Here's some more shit that bugs me:

The RIAA controls the music industry, not the MPAA.

The MPAA controls the movie industry, not the RIAA.

Hilary Rosen doesn't care too much if you steal a copy of "Moulin Rouge". Jack Valenti doesn't care too much if you steal a copy of NSync's "No Strings Attached". (see above.)

Copyright law is not trademark law. Trademark law is not copyright law.

Neither have anything to do with patent law.

Bills on the floor in the House or Senate are not laws yet. They do not affect you yet. They may never affect you.

I'm sure there's more, but that's all I could think of on short notice.

- A.P.