Hi Jane, Unfortunately, there's no way to access kurzweil files without Kurzweil. However, as an Openbook user, you have access to validating .arc files. This is a great service to the Bookshare community because there are actually fewer Openbook users than Kurzweil users. A few Openbook users have taken on validating .arc books as their mission because of this. So if any of the arc files on the step 1 page interest you, you can get an extra boost from knowing that by validating them you are doing the Bookshare community a big favor. <grin> You're right that everyone should make an effort to submit in rtf since this is the most universally accessible format that maintains necessary formatting. Hth, Kellie To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.