Dear Susan, K1000 keeps the italics. Sometimes when it scans italics, depending on the font in the book being scanned, it misreads a question mark for a right parenthesis, a capital I as a slash, or an exclamation mark for an I. These are examples of italics scan mistakes but they are easy to spot and fix when proofreading. It's a nice feature that k1000 scans italics in tact. Always with love, Lissi ----- Original Message ----- From: Susan To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 12:02 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Question About Italics Hi Bookshare Friends, Does Kurzweil strip italics? Thanks in advance. Susan