Have to scan every time!  Otherwise, they're fun.
583169
Angry birds! Telepods!  what's not to like?  Only grip is with the game itself. you have to scan the car every time before playing. It keeps car upgrade information, but having to scan is obnoxious. I don't alway shave the cars with me. and if I lose the little magnifier, I'm out of luck.
287655
I've got two of these scanners--one at home, one at my office. I've increasingly found myself looking for a sledgehammer when trying to use them. Both of them grab clumps of paper, so that I find myself having to feed documents by holding on to all the pages but one, releasing the rest one at a time. Even then, it still tries to feed multiple pages at a time, and/or feeds pages through at an angle so they crinkle and jam. I have to start over multiple times just to get a single file scanned. I've spoken with company reps who tell me to clean the rollers. It makes no difference. In fact, I found this set of reviews while trying to find an alternative. I'm glad it works for other folks; I just wish that mine worked even half as well.
2978438
This little scanner is indeed very handy under the right circumstances, but can be a bit awkward for scanning books with a small inner margin ("gutter") or that don't lie perfectly flat. It can make it tough to move the wand steadily (leading to a wavy image) or cut the image off. I'm beginning to get the hang of it, but my big scanner is still better for some of the sorts of things I like to scan (such as a page here or there from a library book I don't want to buy). I haven't started on the major project I bought the scanner for - scanning old photos for my family genealogy - but it should work well for that. It is fun to use, and has features I haven't learned yet. I also bought the firm-sided carrying case, which I think is a good investment, even if you don't plan to take the wand out of the house - it holds the microSD chip adapter and the connecting wires etc. and protects the wand very nicely. I definitely think this was the right model for me, with the most flexibility - if you're going to bother to buy the thing, get all the bells and whistles the first time (900 dpi, PDF ready, etc.).
3690109
Be prepared to buy third party software for what's otherwise a good product. Their software automatically detects what area they think you want to scan and if that's wrong there's no way to correct it. It has a shameful lack of the most basic features.
633717
I'm an activities director for several board-and-care homes for the elderly, and I use these flashcards to play trivia games with my residents. The cards themselves are great fun, a compact, efficient system for bringing hundreds of trivia questions into my activities. My one complaint, however, is a rather significant: These cards are very difficult to read! Besides the fact that the type is very tiny (maybe 6-point?), someone also made the unfortunate decision to print the questions in white typeon a light pink background!
2889384
The scanner is actaully good. It is very user friendly, at least what was my expereince. However, it is kind of slow with anything from pictures to files. However, for it's price it is a great scanner and you can do many cool tricks once you find out how to do them. Overall it is worth the money!
1528118
It is a great idea but it is not easy to scan and the ipad frequently drops the process so it takes multiple tries to get results.
I also puts it in a j-peg file.
428827
A bit awkward to use. Pull downs don't always work well. Music and whooshing sound effects don't help - I turned them off. I don't always find the subject I'm looking for, although I suspect it must be there. This is irritating when looking "for a reason" but just browsing is VERY fun. And it sure takes up a lot less space than the 300 saved print issues I donated to a university art student. Speaking of space, I was able to load them all, but if you didn't have the capacity for that, I think handling the multiple DVDs would be a hassle.
1110149
This is a great scanner for all of the reasons mentioned by the most helpful 5-star reviews, however, the one dealbreaker for me is that when running commercially-printed photos through the scanner, the scanner scratches the photos, with subtle lines running down the photos about 1cm apart. This happens consistently for all photos. I'm wondering, has anybody else had this problem?
1001360
would be nice if you could use the same scanner on all the cards .not having to buy all the different scanners for them.
870768
I do like this scanned because I can just lay papers on the tray and they feed in perfectly. But when I push the button to feed it rarely works the first time and sometimes I have to push more than 2 times. Also, I can't figure out how to make it scan several pages in one document. I guess I have to go back and search out the directions, huh?
3191951
This cash register was given as a gift to my girls (3.5 and 1.5 at the time, now 4 and 2) and they still play with it regularly. It is actually a really great toy, with one exception. It is very fun for my girls to be able to scan the food items and insert the coupon has to pay for their purchase. They play with it very often. However, every time they play, the coins get stuck and the drawer cannot close. This happens when coins are inserted when the drawer is not all the way closed, which is very frequently. You either have to try to jam the coin through the back or take the whole thing apart and put it back together. This would get a much higher review if the design would make it more difficult for coins to fall back behind the drawer.

Update:
Found the fix. It is easy and makes it enjoyable for everyone.  Added a small tape flap to the toy and have not had a single coin get stuck. I hope the manufacturer takes note and adds a similar flap in the future. See pictures...
314854
Having problem scanning slides, a cartoon of a little go kart,appears on bottom of the
slide I am trying to capture has anyone had a similar problem
I would imagine people have had a similar problem
3091375
Good scanner, but keep in mind: YOU HAVE TO PAY TO USE THE SOFTWARE. Most folks aren't aware, but if you want it to do the neat organizing and reading of receipts and cards, you have to pay a monthly fee for their software.  It's the one reason why I would never buy one.
427587
A couple of printing flaws and one inclusion.  Fun set.
3047008
The good:  The 4180 does deliver a lot for the money. I have used this scanner primarily for Kodachrome slide capture and the color accuracy is very very good.  At 4800 dpi it produces a 35mm slide with a 113MB Bitmap so choose your scanning resolution carefully.  The enclosed Photoshop software will quickly fix or improve many "problems".  The scanner software interface is easy and intuitive, especially under "home" mode.

The bad:  I'm on my 3rd scanner in as many weeks.  At scan #500, a CCD failed, leaving me with a green line across all my slides.  Scans of photos did not have this same problem.  One week after that a RED line at scan #1000.  Now I have the same thing at scan #1200 only it's intermittant, and is a blue line.  The good news is that tech. support is knowledgeable and friendly.  They can only tell me to exchange it or send it in under warranty.  Examining each slide wondering which ones I need to re-scan, or wondering if it will get worse is not an experience I'd wish upon anyone.  Obviously I cannot recommend purchase of this scanner, but if you do, purchase an exchange or extended warranty with it.
4336267
I like this little slide scanner, it was great for scanning 35mm Slides and Negatives, and converting them into JPG photos! It is fun and easy to do,
the scanner is fairly foolproof. Install a small software program for it, plug it into a USB port, and start scanning. It is slower to use than the much
more expensive types with a stacker function, but I found I wanted to tinker with the photos as I scanned them, anyway.
Best of all if used with a simple photo editing program like the free Irfanview program with its "Autocorrect" setting and it will adjust the brightness,
contrast, lighting and color temperature, all at one time. The older the slides, and perhaps more faded or reddish they are, the better the scanner
and Irfanview seemed to work together, to adjust the slides back to normal.
If you have a LOT of 35mm slides, like maybe hundreds of them or even thousands, you may do better to buy one with the auto-loader/stacker.
By the way Be Careful loaning this to anyone-- I loaned it to my wife for some of her family slides, and she promptly LOST the little 35mm slide
carrier for it! I can still scan negatives, but not slides and cannot find a source for a new slide carrier! Just something to be aware of.