Louise, If the book is being validated by someone, you'll get the unavailable for validation message. That's why we need Jesse to start posting his list again, if he can find the time. Without it we have no way of knowing if someone is validating a book already (except by asking here and not everyone subscribes to this list) or if a book is awaiting administrator approval post-validation. It would be nice if, instead of having that message, there could be an alternate message generated when someone downloads a book for validation that says, simply, under the title, "the book is "already being validated. Try again in a few days" (in case the validator releases the book.) Cindy __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover