Caitlyn, I love your idea. (smile) That's a great way to help improve the quality of our books. I think we have a lot of highly-skilled validaters around here who could lend a hand. I will just ask for one thing to be included, and it seems almost unnecessarily obvious. It's the one thing that a person can do to build a great foundation. Please, please read the book all the way through. You can do a lot with a spellchecker and removing headers, but reading the book itself is the way you can catch scannos like the word car for cat or die for the. It's also how you can be certain that all pages are present since scanners don't always handle page numbers well. There are literally thousands of books in the collection that were scanned pretty well but that needed someone to read through and remove scannos. I know Bookshare doesn't require people to read a book and that the validation process was different five years ago. Where we are now in 2008 is a new landscape for volunteers. Since validaters get the same amount of credit submitters do, I think it's fair for validaters to read the book just as submitters are required to scan the whole book. Ok, I've said my piece. I'm going back to my scanner now. (smile) Now where did I put my coffee cup? Monica Willyard