Hi Brad,

Great topic. I have been using the Fujitsu 4120C for document scanning for the last couple of years and love it. Scans very quickly... but, like most scanners you have to monitor the feed. I paid $600 in 2004. Looks like the price hasn't budged much.... http://www.dealtime.com/xPO-Fujitsu-fi-4120C

Last week I had an opportunity to demo the Kodak 1220 for photo scanning. It was incredible. I scanned 3,000 old images and unlike most of the document scanners I have used, the feeder on the 1220 for photos worked great. The 1220 also comes with Kodak image software. I opted to scan t 1200 dpi for family images and at 300 dpi for other images that I could have dumped, but opted to scan everything since storage is so cheap. Cost for the 1220 about $900 after rebate. http://www.kodak.com/US/en/dpq/site/TKX/name/s1220Scanner_product

The idea of a club is interesting. Even though I had intended to keep up with it, I certainly don't scan on a on a weekly or even monthly basis. Maybe every 4-6 months. If there were 12 people in the club, each person could get it for one week every quarter. That would also be a good forcing function. That said, I am not sure that I would need a faster scanner. The real time required is all the prep work. Removing staples from documents, and images from old albums is the time consuming part of going digital.

Keith