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Thanks to recent donations I am in a position to be able to afford to acquire a new Fujitsu Snapscan IX1600 scanner which has now been ordered via Amazon and should be delivered within a couple of weeks.

This is the first scanner I have purchased that is BRAND NEW. The others have all been secondhand and while the fi-5650c is great it is having problems with American magazines with their slippery tissue paper thin pages so it only be used for oversized magazines or where the paper is newsprint. The fi-6130 looked good but arrived with missing rollers and scratched glass where the original owner put stapled pages through it ....... sigh!! ...... and the Avision was a total bust with a lamp issue and totally shitty software which Jason can more than back me up on regarding the problems with it!!

So BIG thanks go out to everyone who has signed up here and to the two or three members who made recent donations out of the blue. It is only because of you that I will soon be in a position to get those wonderful Computer Games: Strategy Plus and PC Gamer (USA) mags scanned along with Dreamcast Official (Japan) finally. Then there's 2500 mags in my basement requiring scanning. What other mags might turn up next????