I am currently scanning a huge amount of photographs and replaced my old scanner with a new one, which helped me a lot in not getting blind by the scanner beam. No more lid opening while the scanner beam is still on, since I have a glass plate containing the scanner now, which doesn't shine into my eyes..
I was wonderfull when scanning photobooks, but there is one drawback when scanning it from the scanner "placeholder" (sorry cannot find a better word for it).
If you put a photo between the scanner and the placeholder, the photo gets caught in the locking mechanisme and is not straight anymore and you miss parts of the photographs and have to rescan the photo's again and again till you have them right.
People (or HP) might say that there is an option to straighten the images automatically, but it does such a bad job at it, that I had to turn it of.
Sorry hp this scanner gets a big F and if the scanner didn't have this huge problem, it would defintaly be worth a B..