scanners

[Cheryl Homiak <chomiak chartermi net>]

Hi all!
I want to get a scanner and would like some advice.
I don't have USB; I do have either a free pci or ISA slot. If I get an sblive
the free slot will be iSA; otherwise it will be pci. I understand that you can
get scsi scanners that don't take a scsi adapter; they plug into the printer and
the printer plugs into the parallel port if i understand it correctly.
Anyway, I know nothing about scanners so could use somehelp. Are there things
that I as a blind person want to look for so that the scanner will actually scan
the pages without me having to guide it or something. I know i'mn probably
revealing major ignorance here, so somebody please give me at least the short
course on this.
Thanks.