Siobhan, The problem is that your validating work is wasted because it does not revert back to step 1. Actually, many of us on this list use and love Kurzweil. I remember that the first book I chose to validate was one that I didn't really care whether it made it into the collection or not; you have to learn on something was my rationale. Now I almost never validate anything I don't want to read which just shows how selfish I am. You might want to look for some short children's book to begin with just to get the hang of the thing, but really reading the manual on Bookshare will help you a lot. Good luck! Jill ----- Original Message ----- From: Siobhan To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 9:30 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] validating my first book Hello all. I'll cut right to the chase, I'm giving up on the bookI thought was such fun to validate. I haven't read the manual, there's not to many people I know with k1000 which is my only editor, there's things I tink that should be removed that need to be left aparently so rather then cause contraversy I'll just see if anyone wants the book. You can have what I've done which isn't much. I did a basic spellcheck, but hadn't finished it. The book is to hot to sleep, by Stephanie Bond. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.1/1141 - Release Date: 11/20/2007 11:34 AM