Why no flatbed scanner ? That would allow you to scan books and other bulky stuff.
Personally, I use >this< scanner and it works absolutely fine with fedora. It's powered by just the USB cable, so it can be easily unplugged and stored in the bookshelf. Quality is fine for me, but I'm not requiring anything special.
Maybe you should tell us some requirements ?
Correction: I have the LiDE210 model, but it looks exactly the same and I guess that not much has changed.
I searched for white a while for something like that. I can not spend hundreds of dollars on a scanner... Previously I had the cheapest scanner/printer combo from like walmart, do NOT buy those. The scans suck. I ended up buying this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LN0NUGC/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
It has a much higher dpi than the other one I had. It captures watercolor and colored pencil fine enough for me (the cheaper one could not), I'm not a professional but as far as I can tell it looks just like it does in person (after minor color adjustment). My bookarts professor thought the scans were good and we made prints that were to be displayed permanently with them. But it is not a printer, sorry. It may give you a starting point, or maybe it would be cheaper to buy a printer and scanner separately?
1) I work digitally from the start using CLIP STUDIO on a MacBook Air, connected to a UGEE drawing monitor.
2) Canon CanoScan LiDE220 is lightweight and portable. The resolution is 4800x4800, which should do the trick. $110 on Amazon
3) I think if you are ink-phobic, move as quickly as you can to digital art. You can get a digital drawing tablet for the price of a scanner. The learning curve is high, but that's how life is. The benefits are too numerous not to switch over. If you absolutely have to stay with traditional pencils, then make copies of your art and ink them yourself with the idea of "well, it's a copy of the original, so if I make a mistake, no big deal.
Define "Cheap".
would this fit within the description?