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There are two types of scanners in this world

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Those that work and those that don’t. Wait. No, I’m thinking of printers. Let me try again. There are two types of scanners in this world: Fujitsu ScanSnap and Doxie.

Apparently others are available and that’s nice but you want one of these. If you can afford it, go the Fujitsu route. I won’t say those are more expensive because I believe the price is only part of that calculation: an item that cost a lot of money but you use is not expensive. Not compared to an item that’s cheap but you never use it.

But Fujitsu ScanSnap scanners cost more than many and enough so that I don’t have one. It is on my budget list for a particular project, though.

Instead, I have a Doxie. Cheaper, lighter, slower, but so handy. And now the Doxie company has brought out something new:

We’re extremely excited to announce two brand-new Doxie Go models this week – Doxie Go Plus and Doxie Go Wi-Fi.

First, about the new Doxie: building on our best-selling flagship portable scanner, Doxie Go, both new models deliver 3x the battery life, higher quality images, one minute setup, the ability to charge and scan at the same time via wall power, and the latest apps.

What we’re most excited about is Doxie Go Wi-Fi. On top of the aforementioned features Doxie Go Wi-Fi also has built-in Wi-Fi for syncing to Mac, PC, iPhone, & iPad (no third-party SD cards or helper apps needed), a native Doxie iOS app for iPhone and iPad, an open developer API (available next quarter), and 4x the memory capacity with Smart Memory™ (store up to 1,800 documents before needing to sync).

Hi: Your Doxie Go Wi-Fi upgrade voucher – email from Paul Scandairato, Doxie (25 November 2014)

Nicely, this came in an email because so did a voucher to let me upgrade to the new Doxie for a pretty considerable discount. Whether you have a Doxie already and so qualify for this or you don’t and you’re just looking for a good speaker, take a gander at the Doxie site.

Writer’s recommendation: Doxie scanner

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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:

Readdle Printer Pro for iPhone free today

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Actually, it's free for 24 hours – but I can't tell when that period started so just go grab it now.

As ever with these things, don't bother thinking about it. Grab it while it's free, ignore it or even delete it – and when you need what it does, there it is. Or you can re-download it for free. And you get updates for free. But only if you bought it during this free period.

I just went to check the details and discovered that I've done this before. I knew I had with a lot of apps – a year or two ago there was a massive spate of travel apps going briefly free and I nabbed the lot, have since used a couple too – but I found I'd done it with Readdle Printer Pro for iPhone too.

No idea when that was. But I don't believe I've ever used it. So this isn't a review, isn't a recommendation for the app per se, it's a recommendation that you take advantage of this chance to get a popular app and try it out.

Evernote CEO speaks

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Interesting interview with Phil Libin, Evernote’s CEO, on AllThingsD:
http://allthingsd.com/20131201/seven-questions-for-evernote-ceo-phil-libin/

I have some niggles with Evernote yet it’s so very good so much of the time that I am a fan. Not sure I’d buy an Evernote-branded wallet – they do now exist and this interview is in part about such things – but next time I’m looking for a scanner, the odds are it will be the one mentioned in here.

That is, if it’s available in the UK by whenever that is. Currently Evernote Market, as their new shop is called, is US-only.

But Evernote itself is available everywhere and there’s a lot in this interview about its aims and uses.