I just bought a microtek 5900, one week old, its 
a new usb 2.0 scanner, i like it alot. its supper 
fast, faster than my old scsi scanner. Its images 
are nice, but you cant tell from my website since 
they were all done with my 5 year old scanner 
with less resolution. :p hmmm, I wonder if I 
should rescan all my stuff, gotta give that some 
thought. One hitch is that they skimpted out on 
the good software, it came with the usual lite 
software. So you would have to factor in buying a 
better software imaging tool. Also make sure if 
you get a usb 2 scanner that your motherboard 
supports it, or you have a pci addon card. You 
can always upgrade later since they are backward 
compatible. But usb 2 is the way to go, as for 
the make and model, there are many good choices 
out there.