Ah Newport Boy, you anticipated the question I was going to ask. Thank you.

I had a quick look on line for scanners and I noticed that the lower end ones at least, nearly all came with their own drivers and it seemed they were for Windoze only. Even Mac did not seem to be supported and they usually do better than Linux in this respect.

Neither of the ones mentioned above came with particularly good user reviews on the sites I checked. The failing seemed to be uneven image quality of the scanned image. It will be interesting to hear from those who have these scanners what their experience is. I think that I will need to pay more than £50 - £60 for something a little better quality.

I also have a WinXP dual boot, so I would still be able to use one if I chose to buy one.