Hi, Thanks for the welcome. I'm sorry I haven't responded until now. My mother had surgery last week so I was away taking care of her. I've already noticed that sometimes the scans don't seem to have come out clearly. I was working on a management text book that, unfortunately, lost two entire chapters to bad scanning. (I ended up rejecting it - I hope that was the right thing to do). Another book I reviewed seemd to have the last word or two lopped off the end of some of the scanned pages - I know that is a common error while scanning. I wasn't sure how in-depth the validation process should be. When we had a scanner, I used to scan some books for my husband and for those I would spend ages making sure that all typos and badly scanned items were fixed. At the moment, I am definintely doing spell-checks on all validation items. For cases such as those I mentioned above, I am more than willing to try to find a hard-copy of the book to fix dropped words/sentences, etc. - but it would more than likely take me a week to do so. Can you keep books for longer than a week under such circumstances? Anyway, I hope to learn loads more from this group! Thanks again for the warm welcome. Lea Kellie Hartmann <hart0421@xxxxxxx> wrote: Hi Lea, and welcome. It's really nice to have a few sighted volunteers here. :-) Sometimes books don't scan too well, and it's easiest for a sighted volunteer to work on those if they can get a print copy of the book. Another project that sighted volunteers sometimes do if they enjoy it is writing picture descriptions for the illustrations in children's books. So welcome, and I hope you can find things to work on that you enjoy reading. Kellie --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site!