A lot of your new HP Scanners have a program called Memory Discs with the driver for the scanner. We recently had to move my mother in with my sister in Maryland because of illness. There are eight of us kids, while cleaning out her house I found all of her old photos. I scanned them all and gave each of my brothers and sisters a copy of the cds with all the photos on (over 8000 scans in all) Then the original photos were given to the individuals that were in them. This way not only do I have them to pass on down through the family (even though I have no children of my own) but there are 7 other copies to be passed down through their lines. Now I have to get going on scanning my own personal photos. I also took the pictures of mom's growing up and did a Memory Disk of her from 3 years old to last year. A few years ago I did a family book and went around to all of the aunts and uncles and got scannings of their photos and these were also included in the cds I gave to my brothers and sisters. It doesn't cost much just a little time for the future generations. Marlene Andes