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?"

Comments

Pen and paper, dumbass

[realmolo]

See, the whole point of TAKING NOTES is to summarize, and only write down what you need. Scanning/taking pictures of whole pages? What an incredible waste of time. Take a notetaking class and quit making things hard on yourself.

Re:Jesus Tits

[wordprocessing]

google doesn't always work.. ever spent hours trying to find something using those search engines? the original poster must've been looking for some knowledgeable slashdotter who can help him/her solve the problem.

Re:Jesus Tits

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Dude? You have that too? If you find out what it is, please let me know.

Re:I'll see your Troll and raise you one

[Iguanaphobic]

Mmmmm, no. Think back to '42, when the government wanted to go to war, but the American people wanted nothing to do with it. A little slack intelligence here, a little willful blindness to the facts there and a little sheer bumbling error and voila, a public relations coup for the war effort. (Any of this sounding familiar??) The big difference with 9/11 was the objective. Rather than putting down a monster, this "war" is all about profit (United Defense shares in your portfolio??) and oil. In the process, they'll strip a few freedoms from the people (all in the name of security). If left unchecked, it could easily have led to a totalitarian military government in the USA. Luckily, the bumbling errors and buffoonery in Washington have prevented that outcome. But it's good to always think of the two cardinal rules of any situation, especially in politics. Who benefits and follow the money. You'll usually end up with the real story, not the one that was manufactured for the media.