I had a scanner and spent hours and hours of just scanning in all of my photos and most of my mom's photos. I just did a bunch at a time, sorting as I went as my scanner was kinda slow. Now I've got all these photos on my hard drive needing still to be sorted into better folders, then burned onto DVDs to share. I figured that if I spread them around the family, if someone had a disaster and lost everything, at least the pictures can be replaced.