It'd be great to see your slides. After a lot of deliberation, I've chosen to retire at year's end and I'll have some time to get serious about buying a scanner and getting down to it. I figure that I'll be done when I'm 115 Years Old.

I don't want to ship my slides anywhere for fear of losing them and commercial scanning is pricey.
The Epson V600 scans 4 Slides at a time and costs $200. Epson V800 scans 12 Slides at a time at even better quality, but costs $640. I grimace at spending over three times the price for the V800, but it might be worth it for productivity's sake.