The Quest for a Scanner

This isn't exactly anime/manga related, but since no one's helping me on DevaintART, I thought I might as well post this here.

I'm looking for a scanner that can scan 9" x 12" drawings. I've shopped around but it seems that anything with a bigger scanning bed than 8.5" x 11" is pricey and/or ginormous. I've also searched for help online, but it's hard to come by answers. So, I thought I'd ask the largest community of artists I know my fellow otakuites about scanning drawings. So are there any scanners out there that can scan 9" x 12" drawings while not killing either my desk or my credit card?

In my online research, I read some comment like the scanner/drawing paper issue is like how hot dogs come in packages of 10 and hot dog buns come in packages of eight. I thought that was accurate.

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