Fair enough. I’ll admit I glanced at the advertisement fairly fast.

I can definitely see the merits of a system like that, especially if one is trying to move towards a paperless office. I can even see how it might be useful to me in putting together a price book for groceries – though I wouldn’t be keeping receipts in those cases; I’d just be entering them into the computer and then tossing them.

But I think I’ll stick with low-tech in this particular instance.

would you be able to link to Voluntary Simplicity? I googled and found a lot of options.

Oddly enough, I was just looking at something akin to this.

But first, a comment that scanning and organizing receipts has _nothing_ to do with clipping coupons, and I found that non sequitur a source of cognitive dissonance.

Ok, on to my thoughts on such a device. Usually these things are actually a sheet feed scanner. I like the notion behind using one of this to scan in all sorts of information. Recipes, newspaper articles, flyers with useful information (calendar of events, etc.), letters or birthday cards. Anything where you want to keep the information. You can then slice, dice, and organize the information so that it works for you, not against you, and you can then rid yourself of the physical embodiment of the information. While books are a physical embodiment I cherish, I have no reason to keep an entire magazine for one article on building a trebuchet, just because that article is not online where I can easily access it. I want to keep recipes handed to me by my mother or grandmother, but don’t have a recipe box. I want to keep copies of financial information ready at hand on the computer, as well as keeping the physical copies safely stored, perhaps in a safety box at the bank.

Not to say there aren’t times when keeping a physical copy of something is a bad thing (books being an excellent example), but I don’t want to keep clutter just to keep information.