I am bummed. After several years of loyal service, my Canoscan LiDE 30
has given up the ghost. Well, half the ghost, that is. It scans only the
left side of the page. After much troubleshooting the inescapable
conclusion is that the hardware has failed. Canon doesn't offer repair
service, apparently, so I'm going to have to buy a new scanner.

I have loved this scanner. At only a couple of Kg it is easy to take
with me to a client's location. It's USB and it "just works" on any
computer I have plugged it into, including Linux and even a Sun box
once. (I have customers who use all kinds of OSs.)

Nowadays there are few single-purpose scanners being made. Any more
everyone has gone to the all-in-ones. Canon does make some
light-weight successors to the LiDE 30, but the cross-platform support
is not as good.

Does anyone know of a very light-weight scanner?

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