Hi Cindy, When I think of abridgment, it always reminds me of an essay I read in high school by E. B. White. It discussed the whole idea of condensation, from the Reader's Digest to other condensations. Finally, he statred that a man did an analysis on a given day to condense everything in print to a sing word. One day. It was irtnog. That, by the way, was the name of this satirical essay. To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank Email to bookshare-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the Subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.