What ever you do, always get a flatbed. Right now I have a Lexmark x125 all-in-one, and the scanner part actually pulls whatever you want scanned through the machine, but it has to be a certain size...it won't scan photos and such, unless you tape it to paper.

I'll have to see which one my parents have, there's is nice and they wouldn't have spent too much on it. I found it... its $161 here, the HP 2355.
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