I was gifted (that is the word I will use as a synonym for "the recipient of unwanted family treasures") several thousand photo slides by my father-in-law before he left the country forever and moved to Panama. I have to say, I was pretty mad. What on earth was I going to do with all these slides? I don't have a projector, and I don't have anyone who would be interested in looking at these images! How can I Mary Kondo my way out of THIS!?Despite my protests of "We will never even look at these!", my partner did not want to get rid of the slides, so we wondered for a long time what to do about them. We eventually came to the conclusion that while it would be time-consuming, it would be much more cost-effective to scan/digitize the slides ourselves rather than ship them out to a third-party company (which I am told you can do). I began this long and arduous quest -- of Middle Earth proportions, one might say -- on the 17th of October, 2020. I anticipate it will take me many months to complete, but Frodo didn't get the One Ring to Mount Doom without a bit of work on his part, did he?After scanning upwards of 1100 slides (so far), I cannot recommend this item enough. It may take you a while to do, but scanning old photos/slides/negatives yourself is weirdly rewarding, and it will give you a glance into the past of your forebearers -- one which may have otherwise been forgotten.PROS+ This is very affordable for what it is; at just over a hundred bucks, this will far outweigh the cost of sending your slides off to a third-party professional to scan for you+ Relatively quick. I have gotten quite swift at doing this and can scan about 100 slides an hour. Although I have a long way to go, the task is no longer as daunting as I thought it would be, as I do an hour or so here and there as my schedule allows.+ Takes an SD card. I inserted an 8GB SD card into the scanner and the photos are being saved to that, rather than to the device itself, which only stores a few dozen images before it is full. Having the photos on a separate memory device is so much more convenient than having boxes upon boxes of slides taking up space in my apartment.+ You can adjust the exposure and the colour of the image on this scanner before you save the photo. This is really helpful as you can fiddle with a photo and scan it multiple times with different exposures, giving you different copies of the same image. I have scanned some images three or four times at different exposures and colour formats to make sure that I am doing the original photo justice. It does not take a lot of time, and it is much easier than having to re-scan a single slide later when you realize you scanned it at an over-exposed setting+ There are lots of tools with this scanner! You can scan photo slides, film, etc. It is fantastic!+ Comes with a little cleaning rod so you can get dust and other specks off the screen. I recommend doing this periodically; I scanned about 30 photos in a row without realizing that there was a black speck stuck on the screen and ended up having to rescan them (ugh).+Plugs into its own power source or directly to your computer. It is helpful to have it plugged in to the computer, as you can switch between scanning photos and viewing them on a larger screen within a few seconds, and this helps determine whether a particular image is up-to-standard or whether you need to rescan it+ The scanner and its parts came in minimal packaging, which is always a bonusCONS- Sometimes, the scanner forgets it has an SD card in it or just turns off after a while (I mean, it is having to do a lot of work, poor little thing). I usually just turn it off and on again and that sorts it out.