Paul, While Kes files may provide some flexibility such as preserving page images, they are quite bulky. Unless there is an absolutely spspecific reason to upload Kurzweil files, you can use RTF. Not all volunteers have Kurzweil available to validate the native KES files; and, consequently, your pool of volunteers who are able to validate the books you submit is lessened. You might find that when you use directly converted RTF files from Kurzweil, you will get an error message. But, once you are ready to upload your file, open your file in Word, go to the bottom, Press the enter key, then press the backspace key, and resave. This procedure will substantially reduce your file size as well as allowing you to upload without an error. You can also put RTF's in zip files. Hope this helps. Pratik Pratik Patel Managing Director CUNY Assistive Technology Services the City University of New York (718) 997-3775 ppatel@xxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Edwards, Paul Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 11:21 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] I am confused I am content to convert files to any format requested before uploading them but was specifically told by bookshare that there was a preference for kes files. This is what I have used. If this preference has changed to rtf, I am more than glad to do the conversion. I assume it is still okay to zip the files before uploading. Clearly, using rtf will save me lots of time and disk space. Paul Paul Edwards, Director Access Services, North Campus Phone: (305) 237-1146 Fax: (305-237-1831 TTY: (305) 237-1413 Email: pedwards@xxxxxxxx home email: edwpaul@xxxxxxxxxxx