Hi Guido I ordered the Plustek OpticBook 3600 because it is designed to scan books, I think the overall time to scan and cleanup a book should be less than that of the Epson 3170. I will test this new machine by feeding it over 750 hart throbbing, heavy breathing pages of romance books. If it needs a defibulater it will be returned and I will search for a more virile scanner. Jim B ----- Original Message ----- From: Guido Corona To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 5:33 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Romance books And which scanner are you planning to submit to this steamy baptism of 'romancic' fire? The new device might undergo cardiac arrest. Guido Guido Dante Corona IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx. Research Division, Phone: 512. 838. 9735. Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx Web: http://www.ibm.com/able "Jim" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 06/04/2005 07:22 PM Please respond to bksvol-discuss To "Bksvol-Discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject [bksvol-discuss] Romance books Hi all Last week I spilled a glass of red wine on my epson 3170 scanner. I cleaned it up, set it in the sun for two hours and it came back to life until today. Probably died of cirrhosis of the circuits. My new scanner will arrive Monday, so to break it in my wife gave me 3 romance books to scan. I will scan them if someone is interested in validating them. From Harlequin American Romance From the back cover. Book 1 The Sheriff Sheriff...Or Outlaw? Or Both? Down on her luck, Mary Beth Parker is back in her hometown of Naconiche, East Texas, to claim her inheritanceâa runÂdown restaurant and motel. The whole town pitches in to help her with this fixer upper, including J. J. Outlaw, the sheriff. But Mary Beth doesn't want his kind of help. Book 2 The Cop A Law-Abiding Outlaw! Carrie Campbell has secret business in Naconiche, Texas. But while she's quietly looking into land for oil exploration, she's also falling for Judge Frank James Outlaw. Hard. Yes, he's got two little rug rats and yes, he lives in this crazy backwater town. But Carrie is discovering she would do just about anything to hang on to this Outlaw, no matter what his crimes. Book 3 The Cop City Boy Moves Home For Now As Dr. Kelly Martin discovers, Cole Younger Outlaw is one ornery patient. The hard-bitten Houston cop doesn't seem happy about recovering from his gunshot wounds in Naconicheâhome of his protective family, the Double Dip ice cream parlor and a police department whose biggest concern is filling people in on the latest gossip. Kelly loves this small town, but the place seems to get on Cole's nerves. Jim B