[WardL]

I looked long and hard at purchasing a scanner to digitize my slides. When I looked at the cost of purchase, the time commitment and my willingness to actually spend the time scanning the slides, it became clear if the slides were going to be scanned, I would have to go to Costco. I could see myself buying a slide scanner and the software become obsolete before I finish the job. Then you start to wonder exactly who is going to enjoy these digital copies? Go through the slides and only scan the one's you really want scanned. I quickly came to the conclusion vacation landscape slides were not worth scanning (Maybe Hawaii being the exception). It just takes so much time, money and computer HD space it is hard to justify. Oh, DVDs don't last forever either! They can age and become unreadable and the DVD technology is changing all the time so watch out for that too. I haven't finished all the slides I want to do, but spending time with my Cobra keeps getting a higher priority! Good luck.