Figuring Out What You Can Do with Different Types of Scanners
Hobbies and Interests
Scanners are interesting beasts – and man, you get a lot of bang for your buck! In fact, a perfectly serviceable USB scanner (as shown in Figure 1) is waiting for you at your local Maze O' Wires store for under $100, and it can do all the following things:
Figure 1: This scanner can bring all sorts of printed material to your PC monitor.
Eccentric Sites for Eccentric Travelers
Hobbies and Interests
One of the drawbacks of getting travel information from the Internet is that much of the information was put there by corporate hotel chains that want to sell you something. These sites are devoted strictly to travel, its spontaneous joys, and its occasional apprehensions:
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