Thanks, Marissa. The squares didn't appear in the books I did before, I'm pretty sure. I think if they repeated I would have noticed and asked. I'll try another book now and follow your suggested method -- but wait. If I download a txt book and convert to Word and then RTF, which is what I did with my very first txt validation, will I be able to upload it as rtf? bookshare wouldn't accept it before except as a txt document, and then all the page breaks and italics I'd put in disappeared. I'll wait to hear from you before I download from the validation list. Cindy __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Jazz up your holiday email with celebrity designs. Learn more. http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com