Nothing beats the OpticBook 3600, in my experience. I work with many very old books with fragile spines and they all come through without a problem! Valerie On Sep 29, 2010, at 11:24 PM, Terra Syslo wrote: > Since I am getting terrible results with the Pearl, does anyone have any > recommendations for scanners that are fast and yet more accurate? Someone > mentioned the Plustek Opticbook, but are there other recommendations anyone > can give me? I want to be able to scan paperbacks without destroying the > spines of the books, since I get them right now from the library.