Best way to lay out this scrapbook

I need some advice about the best way to go about this. I have a client who basically want me to publish her scrapbook. It's full of all sorts of color and b/w photos, drawings, newspaper clippings, you name it. I was thinking I should scan each page (8 1/2 x 11) as a separate pdf, then place each pdf as a separate page in the ID document. After about 10 pages or so the ID document is so bogged down that it takes half a minute just to nudge a frame. I hate to think of what things would be at 200 pages. Even if I divided the book up into 20 or 40 separate documents then reassembled them as a book, it would probably be so unwieldy that I wouldn't even be able to scroll the pages. Once this is done it has to be submitted to the printer as a pdf.

What the client has done is lay out her original photos on a piece of 8 1/2 x 11, xerox it, then type captions next to the xeroxed photos, then attach the original photos over the top of the xeroxes. Two pages are then placed back to back in a clear plastic sleeve, which, along with another 199 sleeves, goes into a ring binder. I’m laying the book in ID (CS3, btw) because I want to add page numbers and some of the pages need to be centered or otherwise moved around so that I can maintain the printer’s minimal margins (the typing and placement of the illustrations on the original page sometimes goes to the very edge). Also, as I scan I'm trying to cut out toner shadows and other blemishes on the original pages. I’ve been scanning using my scanner’s software (Epson Perfection V200). The setting for the image quality of the outputted scan is 24-bit color at 300 dpi (pages with just text are scanned as black & white, 300 dpi, pages with only black & white photos are scanned as grayscale). If I want to do more editing (like cleaning up more blemishes) I open the pdfs in Photoshop. That way I can also change the color mode to CMYK before I save the file. Should I be scanning directly into Photoshop, then? I don’t scale the pdfs in ID because I know that can affect the resolution. I’ll try making tifs instead of pdfs.

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