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Hi for a very long time I've been wanting to transfer 100's of slides my father took in the 60's onto a PC. I looked at an HP scanner which claimed to do this, but turned out to be a cruddy slide holder which one scanned on a flatbed scanner. I noticed places, like The Guardian tech pages, advertising special gizmos for doing this. Of course these said PC or Mac only. Then the other day I came across a similar gizmo that transferred the slide either to an SD card or to its' own memory. I bought this, at worst I can transfer from an SD card. However it turns out that the gizmos internal memory is a standard USB mass storage device and is thus completely compatable with linux. I now wonder if this is the case with all of these devices? Does anyone know? Although the one I bought costs around the same as the other similar devices it is only available in the US (delivered in 4 days!) and thus needs a transformer (which I already owned luckily). The device I bought is an Imagelabs Instant Slide Copier. Ordered from ThinkGeek (who have a fab catalogue of mostly useless gadgets - like a doormat with "There's No Place Like 127.0.0.1" and a t-shirt that lights up when within range of an unsecured wifi hub, at rather high prices). Anyone have any experience with these devices? Simon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html