It’s a scanner, I’m surely going to be telling you that it’s X fast and Y quiet and does many, many Zs. But actually I want to tell you that it is therapeutic.

Maybe that’s a little bit because we’ve all slogged through using naff scanners before, the kind built into naffer printers and my Doxie is flawless. But it is also genuinely relaxing and even calming as you sit here watching the telly and gently feeding in A4 pages as you go.

There are much faster and there are more convenient scanners – I’ve still got my eye on the Fujitsu ScanSnap range – but just now Angela needed something scanned urgently and I barely blinked before sending it back to her as a multi-page PDF.

Mine is specifically the Doxie One which is currently £113.05 from Amazon UK or $127.27 from Amazon US. But there are others.

Take a look at it in action too. This isn’t my video, I don’t have a tidy enough desk to let you see anything here, but: