merrylouw, Im with you! I bought a wand scanner, and not only do I scan anything I want to save in magazines to my computer (I have a whole folder called wand, and inside all my mags are individually folder filed, then that is backed up to an external drive); I am also in the process of copying my cookbooks to my computer so I can divest myself from that collection, too (I have a few hundred and will keep the oldest, collectable books) sharet