Best Way To Preserve Media?

[richlevy]

I soo00 hate scanning with a flatbed.

I picked up a Pandigital portable photo scanner from the QVC outlet store relatively cheaply to scan in old photos or photos given to me as prints. What I like about it is that it scans directly to an SD card and has an AC adapter so that you don't need a computer to use it. The computer is used only to access photos assuming you don't just plug in the chip directly.

My big complaint is that once the lens gets smudged, it's a bitch to clean and I now have streaking on some of my images. Still, it can process photos fairly quickly and I don't have to open and close lids and try to line up photos with corners.

The whole thing fits in a coat pocket. Two coat pockets counting the AC adapter.