Hi Tony, One reason for the shrinking download list is that usually I submit lots of books when I go into the office on Thursdays, but last week, I didn't. There were a bunch that needed to be chopped, scanned and OCRed, so I started an OCR with about 30 books on it (including the Agatha Christie and Ellery Queen books I got a few weeks ago). I'll try to submit them when I go into the office on Thursday. There are 15 Ngaio Marsh books and about 20 romance books waiting to be OCRed, will try to get to those too. Carrie Tony Baechler <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi all. I'm just curious about something. Have the staff been doing some cleaning up of the step 1 page or are people just validating a lot more than usual? The page seems to get smaller every time I look. It appears that several books are disappearing per day. I have had a really difficult time finding things that interest me because they seem to be gone almost immediately. I'm guessing that a couple hundred books have vanished in the past five days or so. Again, I'm not being critical, just curious. I'm glad to see the step 1 page becoming a little more manageable. If this is the staff's doing, then thanks. Otherwise, why the sudden surge in grabbing books to validate? Tony Baechler Maintainer, goldenaudio.net (TM) online archives http://goldenaudio.net/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com