Hi John
I have found the laptop a real asset as I have thousands of songs and I have to read the ones I play infrequently or I have to read the lyrics,and carrying a pile of fakebooks is way too unprofessional looking.

I sorted by categories like 30's,bigband and
I scanned about 1500 to my laptop with my Visioneer One Touch.I bought this a couple of years ago because it is bundled with Paperport software,which has been renowned for years. This software gave me the filing structure I needed to quickly find my music on the fly if necessary. It was only $100. This part was the most time consuming.

Next,I went into my files and made up files of favorites. It is easy organise any way you like. The Paperport software also has an excellent search utility if you forget where you put a song. I used a database also,but it is not necessary. Now you have a treelike structure where you can recall a song in perhaps two clicks. If the song is more than one screen long, you can hit pg dn. If it more than one scan,Paperport let's you stack the pages which come up in a couple of clicks. There are scrolling programs on Zdnet,for one,that will scroll for you.

Assuming you are scanning fakebook sheets,
You now have the music and lyrics right in front of you for as many songs as you like.
I looked into different scanning software and until I found Paperport,I couldn't find a suitable way to organise my music for fast recall.

For midi,I use MidiNotate to display the notes realtime,and lyrics if present. You can also insert the lyrics under the notes. I f you wish,you can then print the whole thing from any midi track and scan it to add to your others.

If you have any questions,post or email me.

Good luck
Bernie