can I update a field (atomically) using a join?

Say I have two tables

table1
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| id | scanned | title |
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| 01 | 0 | book |
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| 02 | 0 | paper |
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| 03 | 1 | paper |
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table2
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| id | owned_by | notes |
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| 01 | tom | good |
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| 01 | sam | boring |
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| 02 | sam | terrific |
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Can I join the two table an update the field 'scanned' on the rows
being selected? i.e., I am looking for something like:

$query = "SELECT table1.title, table1.scanned, table2.owned_by,
table2_notes ".
"FROM table1, table2 ". "WHERE table1.id = table2.id";
// (however, I want to update table1.scanned field of all the entries
being selected, and hopefully atomic to the above select)

Is it possible?
Thanks a lot

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