Hi Brian, I have your book The Girls and am attempting to validate it. Not meaning to sound critical, iff you don't mind my asking, what program and scanner did you scan it with? I ask this because it seems to have lots of blank lines and many lines which have only a few words on them. I'm correcting only the errors within the text as I'm really not sure how to correct some of these short lines! Hope to have it completed soon! The story is quite good! take care and thanks for submitting this book to the Bookshare collection.. Susan