You can use the txt files and convert them to rtf and do a little work on the files with the book. Colleen Colleen Edwards 3377 Bethel Road SE, Suite 107, PMB 334 Port Orchard WA 98366 253 857 7943 FAX: 253 203 6233 email: scenter@xxxxxxxxxxx This communication, including attachments, is for the exclusive use of addressee and may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, disclosure, dissemination or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return email and delete this communication and destroy all copies. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jamie Prater To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 5:41 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] file conversion question, txt file dilemma Hi, all, I've heard from at least one reliable source that .txt files can't be used on bookshare and if they are saved as rtf files, they'll lose formatting. The file I have, I had to save to this format because the book wouldn't read properly with pdf adobe and jaws, and while I was getting signed up as a bookshare member, I was told I could submit txt files by a bookshare staff member. I believe my reliable source that says you can't submit .txt files to bookshare, I just wanted to ask out here as well to see if there's any hope at all whatsoever as I've got a friend who has quite a few books on txt as well as rtf and a few ark's, and all totaled, she has a sizable collection that I'd love to see added to the bookshare library. Any suggestions or light on the subject would be greatly appreciated as neither of us felt that it would be a problem to save files this way or we would have saved them originally as rtf so they would be appropriate for bookshare. Thanks a bunch and have a blessed day.