Hi, everyone! I think Scott's idea is a great one, except for one thing. I've noticed that when I bring up a file or scan a file into Open Book and then launch it into Word, I seem to lose a lot of formatting. In fact, sometimes Word (or Duxbury, too, for that matter) seems to put all of the text into one huge paragraph. So, if FS would improve this feature, it would be doable. Downloading books in the .ark format and uploading them in RTF is certainly allowed... Or did I misunderstand Tiffany's last post? <Smile> Jana ----- Original Message ----- From: Tiffany H. Jessen To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 5:26 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: ARK (Arkenstone)? I guess essentially it could be done that way--as if you resubmitted the book only in another format, but then how does the real submitter obtain the submission credit? The validater would have to know to download both copies, and though they would be using the rtf copy, also know to reject the copy which was originally in rtf and then after validating the rtf copy then approve the submission which was originally in ark. It seems much too complicated. ----- Original Message ----- From: Lisa Belville To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 5:05 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: ARK (Arkenstone)? Yes, this is true, but would it be possible for those of us with the Openbook program to download the file and then re-upload it via the Step 1 page? There would then be two copies, but the new submitter could make a note to that affect. just a thought. ----- Original Message ----- From: Tiffany H. Jessen To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 5:56 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: ARK (Arkenstone)? problem is, when you release a book, it goes back up in it's original format/condition. ----- Original Message ----- From: Scott Blanks To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 2:06 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: ARK (Arkenstone)? I have a kind of half formed thought about how we might be able to get more people validating the .ark books. Could someone that has Openbook download the file, convert it to .rtf, then release it back to the web site as a rich text format file, thus allowing someone else to get their hands on the books they'd personally like to validate? I might not quite have the logistics down, but there must be a solution we can work out. Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: Kellie Hartmann To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 3:50 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: ARK (Arkenstone)? Hi Alison, Arc is the format used by Openbook, another OCR package that's a competitor to Kurzweil. Unfortunately if you don't have Openbook, you can't work on those files. It's a shame to because I would like to get my hands on that great big pile of language teaching and learning books that someone submitted. Kellie