CZUR Aura Pro 14MP Portable Book Scanner, A3 Document Scanner, with Automatic Flattening and Fingerprint Removal Technology, 90 Degree Foldable with Multi-Language OCR, for Mac and Windows

Excellent innovative scanning device, beautifully packaged and designed, everything enclosed that's required. Beats trying to scan items like paperback books on a standard printer / scanner device.

Great peice of kit with great, intuitive software. After a few trial scans, I'm au fait with the settings. You need to set the DPI setting to maximum and use the side lights (rather than the main scanner light) to get the optimum results.

Way better than I expected. Faster than a domestic flat-bed scanner. Whether you can scan a book or not really depends on the spine. As the scans are only for me, I got thin black gloves and hold the books open and use the foot-pedal. This improved on using my fingers which often resulted in my hand(s) being scanned too, resulting in a lot of post editing. One hard lesson - is never to use the powerful editing tools supplied - on your original scans - there is no "undo". I bought the version with the battery. This enabled my working with the laptop in the garden shed where there is no power for the odd hour (over Christmas). Note that the unit can topple over when used on a rickety table. The base is undercut so the mat can be tucked underneath. But the undercutting goes all the way around the unit base instead of being restricted to just the front (where it is needed) creating an unnecessary instability.

Have scanned dozens of books with this - as an academic looking to convert parts of my library to portable PDF, this was a good buy

I had to return this. The packaging is as impressive as people say. I found the interface ok, maybe could have been easier but none too challenging (my IT skills are limited). I bought this to copy pictures from various history books but the quality of the photo taken was so poor I compared it to just taking a photo with my iphone camera and the latter was better. I tried two different rooms and types of light. I tried turning on the mini-lights halfway up the stand, all with the same disappointing result. I tried tech support, they replied quickly but with very standard advice (try another room with more light), didn't feel like they had really engaged with the problem. Was I just doing it wrong? We'll never know and as we (including me) have decided as a society to buy everything online we have no shop to pop into to give us a demo.