Scanning a load of old photos - best method

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I'm on a bit of a nostalgia kick, and I want to scan lots of old photos for sharing and preservation reasons.

I can use the scanner in work at lunchtime and evenings. It can take slightly over A3 size. So it seems my choices are;

1) Scan one photo at a time, and wait for the scanner to run
2) Put 8-10 photos onto the scanner each time, scan these all together, and then use MS Windows Photo Gallery to crop out each individual photo from the combined image.

Either way, it is bloody laborious. Are there any easier ways of doing this?
 
You may laugh at this - But I have actually taken photographs of my old photos , with my digital camera set on micro setting .

Then uploaded them to my PC and cropped in Microsoft Office Picture Manager and I now have them stored in Picasaweb online storage .
 
Surely there must be companies out there that would do this scanning for you at a reasonable price? If not, maybe a nice little business opportunity, since there must be literally millions of photos out there which people would love to have digitised
 
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