Our first holiday season together, my husband bought me what is probably the most useful Christmas present I’ve ever had: a scanner.

I’ve gotten so much mileage out of that scanner.  I use it to scan documents for my business and payments from clients, as well as old family photos that we want to digitize so that we have more permanent copies than our old, fragile originals.

It’s a pretty nice scanner — it’s small and portable, which is convenient for taking it places when I need to scan our family members’ photos.  It also produces a really nice image.  What it’s NOT is one of those high volume scanners – it’s rather slow, actually, and the driver tends to slow down my system if I’m trying to do too much else at once.

All this scanning I’ve been doing has produced a need for data storage solutions.  I’m afraid that if I only have the digitized files — pictures and work files — stored on my computer, something will happen and I’ll lose everything.  So I’ve been looking into online storage or automatic backups.  Maybe that can be part of this year’s Christmas present…

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