I need to purchase a digital scanner to make high-quality digital images of historical photos for publication. Can anyone recommend one? There is a further wrinkle. I recently bought a Dell Inspiron laptop and I stupidly told the clerk I did not need a CD burner, since I didn't know what a CD burner was (I thought it was something for mass-producing pirated movies). So now I discover that I can't copy files to a CD from the laptop. Is there an external CD drive I can buy that will accommodate the large files of digital images? I'll need to send a CD to the publisher with the images. Naturally, all this has to be done on a crash basis because my wife's publisher just called and said they need her book's cover photos within a week or so. Sorry to burden the list with a tech question, but it is historically related. Folks can reply off-line. Many, many thanks, Henry Wiencek Charlottesville To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html