Hi Louise, I've worked on at least one book of yours before, and it certainly had page breaks. If I were you I would just keep submitting them in txt since that works for you and the equipment you have. You have the Premier Programming scanning package, don't you? Since your textfiles have page breaks there's no reason not to use them. They can be validated by those of us who can retain them. Btw I've wanted to ask you--in that enormous pile of books you've scanned are there any Jean Plaidy books? I've read a couple and liked them, so if you have any of those I'd be willing to validate. Kellie