Scan vinyl album covers

[Redneck4sure]

I finally decided to rip vinyl since I have bought a few albums off ebay in the last 5 years. It's been a long time coming but the day has arrived. I revived a BSR McDonald 2520W turntable and ripped my first album. My scanner will only scan 8.5 by 11. I did a light duty online search and didn't see any scanners that would do 12.5 x 12.5 inch. I didn't look at scanners over 400 bucks. I see albums posted on the net with album covers. How are they doing it?

btw, the first album I picked up looked pretty good but skipped on track 1 so I grabbed the next album. It did okay. It was Joanie Summers - "Johnny Get Angry" released in 1962. She has a good voice imo. Just for the record, I like this album but have no idea where it came from. I don't remember buying it. Maybe I wound up with it one of those times that I was given a handful of albums that someone wanted rid of when they were moving or somethng.

I ripped the album to a .wav file and then converted it to .flac broken down into tracks. Here is track 1 (.flac) (title track) along with most (lol) of the album front cover (.jpeg) combined into a single (.rar) file. As I said, I can't scan the entire cover. The audio turned out better than I expected, especially for a first effort.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0SU8QFT0

I also have to tell you that vinyl sounds better.

...except the skips, crackles, pops.