gentlepeople, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince went live on the Bookshare.org site at: 2005-07-16 11:48:55-07 i updated the Bookshare.org homepage at around 11:50 AM announcing that the book was available. i sent out a message to the volunteer and general lists at 11:57. however, the first download of the book occurred at 7/16/2005 11:50:48 AM. as of midnight last night, Sunday, 17 July, 2005, 36 hours after the book got published, 260 distinct users had downloaded the book. gustavo