From what I've seen, the Bookshare translator can't handle three periods with spaces. I think putting them together may be best because of the Bookshare translator, and since it won't have negative effects for readers using speech either. Paula, it seems you're suffering the effects of actually having a good translator. <grin> What I would do is before starting to read any book, do a mass search and replace for all instances of three periods together and replace them with spaces. Since it would only be one search it shouldn't be that much of a pain. Kellie