I've scanned thousands of video game manuals- I have the pane of glass out of an 8"x10" picture frame for flattening pages. Works wonders.

You can almost imagine the look of shock and awe when my retired parents had the nerdy neighbor kid over to look at their computer (was having internet issues) and he stumbled upon 30,000 movie rips, probably 8,000 TV series, complete rom/iso sets from Atari 2600 to PS2...