Back in December, Jason introduced us to an exciting new portable scanner, the Doxie Go. After a most generous visit from Santa, I have had the opportunity to give the new Doxie a real workout scanning old photos and documents around the family home.

My thoughts about the scanner mostly mirror those of Jason. I have been very happy with the resulting scans, which mostly look great at their default 300 dpi setting, and need very little adjustment in the well-designed Doxie photo application that the pictures are imported into (unless you have saved the scans on a USB drive or an SD card—two other great options the scanner provides). This scanner is a great example of boiling a product down to its basics and make it simple and fun to use.

As Jason points out, the scanner is not built for large scale document scanning projects. The relatively slow speed, the single-sided scanning,…

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