Gerald, I am the one who validated Hanta Yo, and I thank you very much for your kind words. Oddly enough, I was surprised that most of the Indian vocabulary words, Ithinkall of them inf act, were correctly spelled, though many of the names had odd symbols in the middle -- but global replace saved a lot of time with that. Otherwise the major problems were misplaced sentence parts and some missing pages, the former probably because of the quality of the book that was being scanned. I had two books from two different libraries (because it tool me so long and one had to be returned) and the quality of those two books varied, I think because of age and use. But it was a pleasurable task, because I really enjoyed the book, and I thank you for submitting it. When I downloaded it to validate, I was prepared to reject it (many people had already released it) if i didn't like it and it was too difficult, but, as I said, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I found that after I stopped validating for the night I kept reading ahead in the book to see what happened. I am very impressed that the author was able to create so many different individual, fully rounded characters. I join you in recommending the book, despite its length. Cindy _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Shop for Back-to-School deals on Yahoo! Shopping. http://shopping.yahoo.com/backtoschool