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Need help determining the effect a small notch & tear have on grade. There is a very small nick on the back cover. It's about 1/32" wide & 3/8" tall. There is also a minor tear as well, about 1/4" long.  There is also some shadowing on back cover at top left & lower left.  

My old scanner has been acting up & I need to replace it. Since most flatbed large format CCD scanners are either 10 years old or really expensive I am wondering if a portable scanner would work. I know there isn't much choice out there for flatbeds; Microtek, Epson & HP. I am currently using an HP Scanjet 8270, but have never liked it. Aside from software issues from day one, there seems to be a heavy glare and/or rainbow effect on every scans of my CGC books. I have noticed that many examples in the thread have similar glare. I am guessing HP products.

My first scanner was a microtek v6sul. I liked the images it produced, but that one broke. I recently bought a used one on ebay & had lots of compatibility issues with windows 10. Even Vuescan software doesn't have drivers for windows 10. So, I had to set it up on an old laptop (windows 7) only to find that there was a defect in the scanner. Every image had a vertical line from top to bottom.

Long story short, I looked on the forums here as a reference in the past, but most of the recommendations are a couple years old now. 

Looking for any advise/ suggestions. Here are a couple of scans from the Scanjet. And Microtek scans further down.

Here are the same books from my original V6Sul

My old scanner has been acting up & I need to replace it. Since most flatbed large format CCD scanners are either 10 years old or really expensive I am wondering if a portable scanner would work. I know there isn't much choice out there for flatbeds; Microtek, Epson & HP. I am currently using an HP Scanjet 8270, but have never liked it. Aside from software issues from day one, there seems to be a heavy glare and/or rainbow effect on every scans of my CGC books.

My first scanner was a microtek v6sul. I liked the images it produced, but that one broke. I recently bought a used one on ebay & had lots of compatibility issues with windows 10. Even Vuescan software doesn't have drivers for windows 10. So, I had to set it up on an old laptop (windows 7) only to find that there was a defect in the scanner. Every image had a vertical line from top to bottom.

Long story short, I looked on the forums here as a reference in the past, but even those are several years old now. 

Looking for any advise/ suggestions. Here are a couple of scans from the Scanjet

And here are some from my original V6SUL

Thanks for your input. BTW, DR\r. X, I was not looking for a definitive overall grade, but instead I was looking for the impact the tear has on the evaluation of the front cover.  Since I was having trouble finding graded books with a similar tear I thought I would ask the people here. 

As you can see there is a tear of sorts in the middle of the cover. It's very slight. At first I thought it was just a color scrape. But, it is a tear all the way thru the front cover. Any input would be helpful.