Gisela, I too have a microtek scanner but with open book 7 plus the upgrade. I have noticed several things while scanning. 1. Make sure you hold down the book firmly against the scanner which you probably do anyway. 2. If you come across what is known as shadow binding which means that you get both pages in 1 and the right side is blank, thanks to Shelley, bend the book backfords and forwards to try to loosen the binding. 3. Sometimes when I get to where the binding is even and there are a lot of errors, I don't press down as hard as I usually would say about the third of the way through the book. As far as everything else such as brightness goes and etc. I just let open book do the rest.----- Original Message ----- From: Gisela Vazquez To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 4:19 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: scanning process? Re: Re: identifying books from download list Oh, I have scannar and a scanning program. I guess for the moment what I want is tips on how to make the most with what I have. I'm not working full time so you can imagine the cashflow problems. I have money for the esencials and a bit more to be truthful, but if I want to spend $80 on a scannar and whatever upgrading to kurzweil, or even updating my openbook, it would take time. The scanr i have is a microtech. It actually scans very well depending on the book. i have openbook5, as I've said before. tips? suggestions? Gisela