Nothing fancy, except I need one now, for reasons. I could take cell phone photos of my legal documents I need to send but I would rather they be scanned correctly.
I used to have a scanner except it's attached to an HP inkjet printer, the inkjet printer required the worst fucking software on the planet to work correctly and therefore does not. Last I tried the thing was inoperable, which is a shame since there's no reason for it not to work.
I tried calling Re-PC in seattle figuring they'd have a bounty of cheap flatbed scanners, but all they have is a $300 document feeder scanner, which is out of my price range for something like this.
The other option is a FedEx office, which will Suck Shit. I have used these before to print documents and every single time it's a pain in the ass to use, to email them documents in the store, and have them run a print. the people that work there are nice but, naturally, overwhelmed. I could try a library but they generally do not let you bring in USB sticks to use with the public computers to transfer documents, so I'd have to sign into my gmail on a public computer, or something. this won't do.
I'm going to have to...go to fucking bestbuy and get something new. god.
This is, frankly, stupid. I feel like there was a 15 year period where these things were ubiquitous, and then the fucking smartphone came along and rendered doing things 95% correctly obsolete, and now it's just expected you'll take cellphone photos of everything. I don't want to. While it gets the job done of relaying the information that's on the documents and transmits them somewhere, it's still a cellphone photo. there's an air of hasty unprepardness that comes with photographed legal documents. I want to do things the right way, and that's simply no longer convenient or accessible unless you go out of your way. Kind of like how the MP3 player disappeared, or how you no longer have low end point and shoot cameras/camcorders. The smartphone ate that entire market and it sucks now
update: library closes at 6, tukwila repc closes at 7. siiiigh
