Well, we bought a new scanner a couple weeks ago. The scanner bed is 8.5x11 just like the other one was, but I discovered tonight that it is about 1/2 inch deep and not flat. So I can't scan my work in pieces and put them together like I did before. Because the picture is further away, it just comes out too dark and blurry. My big wish list item is obviously an extra large scanner... but, has anyone ever priced those things! It took us a couple months just to get a regular scanner/printer. And our camera has been dropped one too many times and is out of commission. So there will be no updates for God knows how long. I'm not too happy right now. But I wanted to let watchers know I am still alive.