Kellie, Your correct. At least as far as I have been able to determine, there is no brightness control for this scanner. Despite that, Kurzweil has it as one of their recommended scanners and they say results are excellent. I would really like to hear from someone who uses this scanner. After using a book edge scanner for many years, I really miss having one. I can get a hole book flat on the platen, but it's just so much easier with a book edge. I was able to scan faster one page at a time with a book edge than two pages at a time simply because getting the book set on the platen was so much easier. David ----- Original Message ----- From: Kellie Hartmann To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 9:51 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: question on scanning books Hi David, The only negative about this is I think I heard that the brightness can't be controlled yet with this scanner. That might or might not be a major issue. Kellie